EMU- WREN. 
than the former ; I suggest the name intermedins, of which the Mount 
Compass bird will be the type.” 
At present then we have ten forms with prospects of more, thus : 
Stipiturus malachurus malachurus (Shaw). 
New South Wales. 
This was described from Sydney, and the range of this typical form is 
quite unknown. I have seen specimens supposed to come from the Richmond 
River district which have darker red heads, browner backs, longer, narrower 
tails and paler flanks, and this may be named : 
Stipiturus malachurus richmondi subsp. nov. 
Then we must note 
Stipiturus malachurus subsp. 
from the Bellenden Ker Plains, the furthermost northern record, but not yet 
substantiated. 
Then 
Stipiturus malachurus tregellasi Mathews. 
Victoria. 
Stipiturus malachurus mallee Campbell. 
Victorian Mallee. 
The range of this form is also quite unknown. 
Stipiturus malachurus littleri Mathews. 
Tasmania. 
Stipiturus malachurus intermedins Ashby. 
South Australia. 
Stipiturus malachurus halmaturinus Parsons. 
Kangaroo Island, South Australia. 
Stipiturus malachurus westernensis Campbell. 
South-west Australia. 
The range of this form is yet undefined, and it may be that later my 
Stipiturus rothschildi may prove a valid form. 
Stipiturus malachurus medius Mathews. 
South-west Australia. 
Range yet undefined ; type from Gnowangerup, thirty miles south- 
east of Broome Hill and twenty miles north of Stirling Ranges. 
Stipiturus mala, churns hartogi Carter. 
Dirk Hartog Island, West Australia. 
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