YELLOW-BELLIED SHRIKE-TIT. 
A little later I prepared my “ Reference List ” and admitted : 
Falcunculus frontatus frontatus (Latham). 
New South Wales. 
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Falcunculus frontatus gouldi Cabanis. 
Victoria, South Australia. 
Falcunculus frontatus herbertoni Mathews. 
“ Differs from F. f. frontatus in its paler coloration above and below, and 
in its shorter bill. Herberton, North Queensland.” 
Falcunculus frontatus whitei Campbell. 
North-west Australia. 
Falcunculus frontatus leucogaster Gould. 
West Australia. 
I placed F. flavigulus with a ? in the synonymy of the first named. 
Almost immediately a correction became necessary and I wrote: “ For this 
(the Victorian) form I used Cabanis’s name of F. gouldi, as he proposed that 
name, and described a bird from Port Phillip, Victoria. I now find that 
Bonaparte, in the Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 365, 1850, had previously intro¬ 
duced it, ex Cabanis’s MS. for the bird figured by Gould. As neither Bonaparte’s 
nor Gould’s birds are from definite localities and the descriptions are indefinite, 
the only course now open is to designate New South Wales as the type locality 
of Falcunculus gouldi Bonaparte, and to describe the Victorian form as follows : 
Falcunculus frontatus iredalei. 
“ Differs from F. f. frontatus in its darker colour and heavier bill. Ring- 
wood, Victoria.” 
Another complication almost immediately arose, as when Witmer Stone 
recorded the Gouldian types in the Philadelphia Museum he selected a female 
from South Australia as type of Falcunculus flavigulus, observing : “ Based 
on the female of F. frontatus, as explained later in the Birds of Australia. All 
the specimens are labelled frontatus .” 
I had just named 
Falcunculus frontatus lumholtzi. 
“ Differs from F. f. frontatus in having a much shorter crest, more white 
in front of, and below the eye, and a much paler coloured tail with larger 
white tips. (Minnie Downs) Queensland.” 
and in my 1913 “ List ” I made a couple of alterations. 
With the larger accession of material and study I separated F. leucogaster 
with specific rank, treating it (I think more correctly) as a representative 
species, not a subspecies. I then accepted Witmer Stone’s rendering of F. 
flavigulus and used it for the Victorian and South Australian form in place 
of my F. f. iredalei. 
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