THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
I have recently added 
Falcunculus frontatus territori. 
“ Differs from F. f. lumholtzi Mathews in its smaller size. The tail is 
blacker, with some of the outer webs fringed with yellow. Male: wing 85 mm., 
tail 55 ; in lumholtzi the male measures : wing 95 mm., tail 80. McArthur 
River, Northern Territory.” 
The recent discovery that Gould’s earlier types of Australian birds are 
certainly not in Philadelphia has necessitated a reconsideration of such cases 
as F. flavigulus, and there cannot be any doubt that the bird selected by 
Witmer Stone is not the type, and that Gould’s F. flavigulus came from New 
South Wales, and is a synonym of F. frontatus typical. 
Chisholm observed : “ I have seen any amount of young, and know 
that all the rest of the adult colours take strength before the darkness of the 
throat,” so that w'e may safely assume that it was an immature bird that 
Gould named F. flavigulus. 
Campbell and Barnard have recently remarked: “ We did not observe 
this bird till we arrived on the Kirrama tableland, where its plaintive whistle 
was occasionally heard. But a part of its call note was unlike that of its more 
southern form. In comparing skins, the birds had less wing (A inch) and 
more intensely coloured yellow than the Southern Shrike-Tit. These differences 
would probably warrant Mathew’s subspecific title herbertoni." 
Ashby has noted : “ Both male and female were obtained at the Gorge 
(apparently south end of Flinders Range, lower north of South Australia). 
The female is considerably yellower—more a buff-yellow than the greenish- 
yellow' - of the more southern form. The male was not so yellow 7 , but of the 
buff shade similar to the female. Rump of both brighter yellowish-green 
than in Adelaide specimens.” 
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