SPINIFEX BIRD. 
Rogers’ first note of this bird from the North-west read : “ This is a rare 
species. I secured the specimen in the Spinifex, where it was hiding very 
close. When flying it carried the tail widely spread.” 
When Montague described the Monte Bello form we compared all the 
specimens available and I also described : 
Eremiornis carteri rogersi Mathews. 
“ Differs from E. c. carteri in being much more reddish above.” 
Kimberley Gold Fields, North-west Australia. 
Recently Campbell and Whitlock have confirmed the distinction of the 
island form, but would not accept the above. Nevertheless three forms as 
given in my 1913 “ List ” are recognisable, viz. : — 
Eremiornis carteri carteri North. 
Mid-west Australia. 
Eremiornis carteri assimilis Montague. 
Monte Bello and Barrow Islands, M.W.A. 
Eremiornis carteri rogersi Mathews. 
North-west Australia. 
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