Order PASSERIFORMES. 
Family SYLVIIDM. 
No. 534. 
ACANTHIZA INORNATA. 
PLAIN-COLOURED TIT. 
(Plate 449, two bottom figures). 
Acanthiza lnornata Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1840, p. 171, July 1841 ; Swan 
River, West Australia. 
Acanthiza inornata Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1840, p. 171, 1841 ; id., Birds Austr., 
pt. xxiv. (Vol. III., pi. 59), Sept, 1st, 1846 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 370, 
1865; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 185, 1878; Sharpe, Oat’ 
Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. VII., p. 293, 1883; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 9, 
1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 25, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. 
Birds, Vol. I., p. 229, 1901 ; Milligan, Emu, Vol. II., p. 72, 1902 ; id., ib., Vol. III., 
p. 17, 1903; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., p. 279, 1904; Lawson, 
Emu, Vol. IV., p. 134, 1905 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 74, 1908 ; Orton 
& Sandland, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 79, 1913; Howe, Emu, Vol. XVI., 171, 1917 
(Review) ; Ashby, ib., Vol. XX., p. 134, 1921 ; Le Souef, id., ib., p. 142 ; Alexander, 
id., ib., 166. 
Acanthiza mastersi North, Agric. Gazette N.S.W., Vol. XII., p. 1425, November 1901 : 
King George’s Sound, West Australia ; id., Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., 
p. 278, 1904; Emu, Vol. IV., p. 147, 1905; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral.’, 
p. 75, 1908. 
Acanthiza inornata inornata Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVTIL, p. 347, 1912 ; id., List 
Birds Austr., p. 215, 1913. 
Acanthiza inornata mastersi Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 347, 1912 ; id., List 
Birds Austr., p. 215, 1913. 
Acanthiza inornata submastersi Mathews, Austral. Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 2, p. 43, April 2, 
1912 : Stirling Ranges, South-west Australia ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 215, 1913. 
Acanthiza inornata carnarvoni Mathews, Austral. Av. Rec., Vol. II., pt. 4, p. 76, Dec. 29, 
1913 : Carnarvon, Mid- west Australia. 
Acanthiza inornata strellyi Mathews, ib. : Strelly River, Mid-west Australia. 
Distribution. Western Australia only from the Stirling Ranges to Strelly River. 
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