YELLOW-BREASTED SHRIKE ROBIN. 
species and subspecies, valuations not kept separate by Hartert, but which, 
nevertheless, are perfectly valid degrees in nature. 
The only other subspecies recently described is E. a. austina , which I 
noted in H. L. White’s collection from Cobbora, New South Wales, and the 
characters I gave as : “ Differs from E. a. australis in having the head and 
back grey, the latter altogether lacking the greenish tinge ; the under-surface 
is very much paler.” 
At the present time there are six recognisable subspecies in the limited 
range of the species from Rockingham Bay, Queensland, to Victoria, and two 
of these have been recently named by Australians who do not profess splitting. 
The names read : 
Eopsaltria australis australis White. 
Type locality, Sydney, New South Wales. 
Exact range north and south not exactly determined. 
Eopsaltria australis chrysorrhos Gould. 
Eastern parts of New South Wales, and 
southern portion of Queensland. Here again exact range not fixed, as 
Eopsaltria australis austina Mathews. 
Cobbora (inland), New South Wales. 
and 
Eopsaltria australis coomooboolaroo Campbell. 
Dawson River district, South Queensland, 
closely surround it in conjunction with 
Eopsaltria australis magnirostris Gould. 
Rockingham Bay, North Queensland. 
The ranges of these five probably inosculate, while Jackson regarded the 
possibility of two forms in the last named district. 
Eopsaltria australis viridior (Mathews). 
Victoria. 
At present this is a most marked form, but its northward range is unknown. 
It is possible that two forms exist in North Queensland, one a lowland 
form and the other in the highlands; but it seems that E. jaclcsoni Le Souef 
would still remain synonymous with the prior E. magnirostris Gould. 
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