THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
44 Differs from A. 1. lineata in being much greener above and below especially 
on the abdomen. Mount Lofty, South Australia.” 
South Australia. 
When Captain S. A. White sent me specimens from Kangaroo Island, I 
named these : 
Acanthiza lineata whitei. 
44 Differs from A. 1. clelandi in being darker green above, and in having the 
head darker brown.” 
When Witmer Stone undertook the listing of the type specimens of 
Australian Birds in Philadelphia, he pointed out, although Gould had indicated 
New South Wales as the type locality, all the specimens were labelled South 
Australia, and with the information then available an error was suggested and 
South Australia considered the correct locality. I therefore named the New 
South Wales form : 
Acanthiza lineata goulburni 
writing : 44 Differs from A. 1. lineata (from South Australia) in being distinctly 
less green above and almost white below.” 
Later, I named the form from the Bunya Mountain, South Queensland, 
A. 1. whitei (overlooking the previous use of this name), so I changed it to A. 1. 
alberti , the difference being written as : 44 Differs from A. 1. goulburni Mathews 
in having a distinctly yellow under-surface and in having a duller upper-surface, 
so that the lines on the head seem more pronounced.” 
This now appears to be a distinct case in favour of the claim that Gonld 
superseded specimens without indication. At the present time there can be 
little hesitation in accepting the birds in Philadelphia as being the specimens 
figured in Gould’s Birds of Australia folio edition, but that they do not 
constitute in many cases the types of the species which were duly presented 
to the British Museum is certain. Thus Gould presented to the British Museum 
the specimens figured in his Synopsis and this species is one of them. 
Consequently New South Wales must be accepted as the type locality and the 
name clelandi revived for the South Australian subspecies. The reason why 
Gould’s specimens are labelled as from South Australia appears to be due to 
the fact that he collected this species commonly there himself and as previously 
suggested these were preserved in a better manner they were used in place of 
the older ones. So far I have been unable to trace the specimens described in 
the Proc. Zook Soc. (Lond.) for 1841, but otherwise all the types of the earlier 
described species of Gould would not appear to be in Philadelphia but in London. 
Consequently the subspecies will now be : 
Acanthiza lineata lineata Gould. 
New South Wales. 
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