THE BIRDS OP AUSTRALIA. 
been Victoria, as Port Phillip is in that State, but in Gould’s time included in 
South Australia. 
Again, it seems likely with the new information available that the “ W ” 
was correct, a better specimen collected by Gilbert having been sent to 
Philadelphia than one from Port Phillip. 
When I drew up my “Reference List” I examined a fair amount of 
material, and was compelled to endorse Gould’s conclusions that there were 
differences in the coloration and size, the Southern Australian birds having 
fully black underside in full breeding plumage, a state elsewhere rarely met 
with, also that the northern birds differed as did the western ones, noting 
the features quite independently, so that there can be little doubt of their 
constancy. 
I w r rote “ Cincloramphus crurdlis clelandi differs from C. c. cruralis in being 
much darker below. Perth,” while Gould had stated that they were also 
smaller. The northern one I distinguished as C. c. rogersi , stating : “ Differs 
from C. c. cruralis in being paler on the under-surface ” ; while again Gould 
contended they were smaller. 
These four were admitted in the “ Reference List ” 1912 and in my 1913 
“ List,” and no alteration is necessary save in connection with the type locality 
of C. cantatoris. 
The forms to be recognised still are : 
Cinclorhamphus cruralis cruralis (Vigors and Horsfield). 
Queensland, New South Wales and (?) 
Northern Victoria. 
Cinclorhamphus cruralis cantatoris Gould. 
Southern Victoria : South Australia. 
Cinclorhamphus cruralis clelandi Mathews. 
South-west Australia. 
Cinclorhamphus cruralis rogersi Mathews. 
North-west Australia and Northern Territory. 
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