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the width of each of the curious tail-feathers being only about half the width 
of those of eastern examples.” Four years later he named it Stipiturus 
westernensis, and then gave a figure of the tail-feathers for comparison, the 
western form being typified by an Ellensbrook skin, and the eastern by a 
Springvale, Victoria, specimen. 
Simultaneously, I examined the specimens in my collection and also all 
the rest available, and acknowledged in my 4 4 Reference List ” five sub- 
species thus : 
Stipiturus malachurus malachurus (Shaw). 
New South Wales, Victoria, South Aus- 
tralia. 
Stipiturus malachurus malice Campbell. 
Victoria (Mallee). 
Stipiturus malachurus littleri Mathews. 
44 Altogether darker than S. m. malachurus, both above and below, and 
markedly so on the head. Tasmania.” 
Tasmania. 
Stipiturus malachurus rothschildi Mathews. 
44 Differs from S. m. malachurus in being greyer above ; the head 
only slightly reddened, with the black centres to the feathers always present ; 
the patch between the eye and the ear-coverts is pronouncedly white 
shafted ; the blue on the throat darker, and with less white on the abdomen. 
West Australia.” 
South-west Australia. 
Stipiturus malachurus ruficeps Campbell. 
North-west Australia. 
Fortunately, the name westernensis applies to the same form as my 
rothschildi, as both names appeared at the same time, Campbell’s on the 1st 
of the month in Australia, and mine on the 31st in England. As soon as 
I received Campbell’s paper I made the correction, but added : 
Stipiturus malachurus tregellasi. 
44 Differs from S. m. malachurus in having the blue of the throat dis- 
tinctly paler ; abdomen whiter, and the red on the forehead does not extend 
so far back. Frankston, Victoria.” 
Victoria. 
This is the bird that Campbell has used as typical of the eastern form, 
but it is obviously different from the Sydney bird. 
These half-dozen forms I arranged in my 1913 44 List,” and for six years 
no addition was made, and then in succession four new forms were added, 
and at present all will be allowed, but before long more will be named. 
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