REED-WARBLER. 
Tatare australis Oberholser, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., Yol. XXVIII., p. 900, 1905. 
Tatar e gouldi Oberholser, ib. 
Acrocephalus australis australis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 342, Jan. 31, 1912. 
Acrocephalus australis mellori Mathews, ib. : Mannam, South Australia ; id., Austral Av. 
Rec., Vol. I., p. 59, 1912. 
Acrocephalus australis gouldi Mathews, ib. 
Acrocephalus australis carter ce. Mathews, ib. : p. 343, Derby, North-west Australia ; id . , 
South Austr. Ornith., Vol. III., p. 174, 1918. 
Acrocephalus australis melvillensis Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. I., pt. 3, p. 77, 
June 28, 1912 : Melville Island, Northern Territory. 
Acrocephalus australis inexpectalus Mathews, ib., pt. 4, p. 92, Sept. 18, 1912 : New 
South Wales. 
Not A. inexpectatus Berezowski and Bianchi (Ann. Mus. Zool. St. Petersb., Vol V., p. 210) 1900. 
Conopoderas australis australis Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 209, 1913; Belcher, Birds 
Geelong, p. 265, 1914. 
Conopodems australis inexpectatus Mathews, ib. 
Conopoderas australis gouldi Mathews, ib. ; Carter, Ibis, 1921, p. 57. 
Conopoderas australis carter ce Mathews, ib. 
Conopoderas australis melvillensis Mathews, ib., id., Ibis, 1914, p. 124. ; S. A. White, Emu, 
Vol. XVIII., p. 22, 1918 (S.A.) 
Distribution. Australia generally and Tasmania. 
Adult male. General colour of the upper-surface smoke-brown, including the top of 
the head, back and wings, becoming paler and inclining to cinnamon-brown on 
the upper tail-coverts and tail ; greater upper wing-coverts, bastard-wing, and 
primary-coverts darker and more blackish brown than the back ; flight-quills 
also blackish brown with pale inner margins ; lores and a line above the eye pale 
buff ; ear-coverts and sides of the neck similar to the back ; a dusky spot in front 
of the eye ; throat, fore-neck, and middle of abdomen white ; breast tinged with 
buff ; sides of body and thighs ochreous buff ; under tail-coverts, axillaries, and 
under wing-coverts pale buff ; under-surface of flight-quills pale brown ; lower 
aspect of tail pale cinnamon-brown. Bill with upper mandible brown, distal Lalf 
of lower bluish-grey, remainder fleshy-grey. Feet and tarsus dark leaden-blue, 
eyes brown. Total length 155 mm. ; cuhnen 16, wing 74, tail 72, tarsus 28. 
Figured. Collected at Point Torment, West Kimberley, North-west Australia, 
on the 12th of April, 1911, and is the type of Acrocephalus australis carter ce. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male. 
Adult. General colour above earth-brown, including the top of the head, hind-neck, 
sides of face, sides of neck, back and wings, becoming paler on the rump, upper 
tail-coverts, and tail ; lores and a line over the eye white ; a dusky spot in front 
of the eye ; throat and fore-neck milk-white ; breast, abdomen, sides of body, 
under tail-coverts, axillaries, and under wing-coverts pale buff ; under-surface 
of flight-quills pale brown with buffy margins ; lower aspect of tail also pale brown 
with paler margins at the tips of the feathers and white shafts. Bill brown, lower 
mandible and basal half of tomium of upper flesh white, tinged with leaden-blue 
near tip, feet pale leaden-blue, tarsus leaden-grey. Eyes light brown. Total 
length 185 mm. ; cuhnen 16, wing 82, tail 70, tarsus 29. Figured. Collected on 
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