GRASS-WARBLER. 
A reconsideration in connection with the extra -limit al specimens referred 
to this species necessitates the recognition of all the named Australian races 
and the addition of still more : 
Gisticola exilis exilis (Vigors and Horsfield). 
South Queensland, New South Wales, 
Northern Victoria. 
Gisticola exilis mixta Mathews. 
North Queensland, Bartle Frere district. 
Gisticola exilis diminuta subsp. nov. 
Cape York, N.Q., North Queensland. 
A very small, pale race, showing little or no seasonal plumage changes, 
and paler than the preceding, the back striping less pronounced, and under- 
surface paler still. 
Gisticola exilis normani Mathews. 
Coastal Eastern Northern Territory and 
Queensland, as above. 
Gisticola exilis Uneocapilla Gould. 
Coastal Western Northern Territory. 
Gisticola exilis alexandrce Mathews. 
Interior Northern Territory. 
Gisticola exilis melvillensis Mathews. 
Melville Island, Northern Territory. 
Gisticola exilis parryi Mathews. 
Northern North-west Australia. 
Gisticola exilis tormenti Mathews. 
Southern North-west Australia. 
Gisticola exilis exaggerata subsp. nov. , 
Southern Victoria, Tasmania (?), Sbuth 
Australia. 
Larger and darker than the typical form whatever state of plumage be 
compared ; probably there is more than one subspecies here confused. 
As to the extra -limit al forms studied whenever a series is at hand they 
are found to be constant and easily distinguished, and recent workers have 
accepted such when they have examined the material ; from many localities 
single specimens are only seen, and of course the subspecies cannot be deter- 
mined, though in some cases such are strikingly different. Many have been 
named by the last generation of ornithologists, and consequently many names 
are ready-made for some of the recognisable races. In winter plumage the 
male has a striped head like the female. 
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