STRIATED FIELD-WREN. 
“ Western Striated Field-Wrens were seen in mid-February, 1919, on scrubby 
sand plains about thirty miles south-east of Broome Hill, and, as usual, were 
very wary. When staying at Woolundra, about one hundred and fifty miles 
north of Broome Hill, in May, 1919, I saw and heard a Galamanthus on sand 
plain country, but failed to obtain a specimen, having no gun at the time. 
It would be interesting to identify the birds occurring there.” 
Mr. Ashby has also written me : “ The birds I have from the Stirling 
Ranges, South-west Australia, differ so much from fuliginosus (typical) that 
I think one would be justified in giving it specific rank. I have another bird 
collected in the Wongan Hills which is smaller and buffer than the one from 
Jetermerrup.” 
Upon reconsideration I find that structurally the Broome Hill birds show 
stouter bills, a little more fan-shaped tails and have smaller feet, the hind-claw 
shorter. It is possible that we have here not a subspecies, but a representative 
species, and that the western forms should be called : 
Galamanthus montanellus montanellus Milligan. 
Stirling Ranges, South-west Australia. 
Galamanthus montanellus carter i Mathews. 
Broome Hill district, South-west Australia. 
I have examined the form from the Wongan Hills, and find it agrees 
with Ashby’s diagnosis, and is worthy of subspecific differentiation, and 
therefore name it : 
Galamanthus montanellus ashbyi subsp. n. 
This does not help us with the eastern forms, however, as I find that the 
type of A. fuliginosus Vigors and Horsfield has white lores and that Swainson’s 
description of his Praticola anthoides agrees most closely with that given by 
North for his Galamanthus diemenensis. 
This would mean a reconstitution of subspecific names, thus : 
Calamanthus fuliginosus fuliginosus Vigors and Horsfield. 
Northern Tasmania (Eastern districts) and 
Victoria. 
Galamanthus fuliginosus anthoides Swainson. 
North-west and Southern Tasmania. 
This, however, must be confirmed by series of specimens and comparison 
of types. 
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