THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
When I prepared ray “ Reference List ” I regarded this as a subspecies 
of C. erythrops, and also added : 
Climacteris erythrops neositta. 
“ Differs from C. e. superciliosa in being more reddish-brown on the 
back. Callion, West Australia.” 
Although F. E. Howe in his recent “Review” has stated: “I consider skins 
from Central Australia and Western Australia cannot be separated from the 
dominant form,” meaning thereby that he concludes that the Central and 
Mid-west Australian birds are inseparable, I find that my character holds 
good when a series collected by Shortridge in Western Australia is examined, 
and moreover these appear to have even smaller bills and generally smaller 
measurements. 
As I now regard the White-browed forms to constitute a species distinct 
from the Red-browed birds, the naming of these must be reconsidered; and 
at present Mellor’s form may be tentatively admitted. 
The names will be : 
Cormobates affinis affinis (Blyth). 
Broken Hill District, New South Wales. 
Cormobates affinis parsonsi (Mellor). 
Adjoining parts of the Mallee of South 
Australia and Victoria. 
Cormobates affinis superciliosa (North). 
Central Australia. 
Cormobates affinis neositta (Mathews). 
Mid-west Australia. 
Mr. A. J. Campbell suggests that Broken Hill was not discovered in 1863, 
yet the country about there had been discovered. There is no reason for 
rejecting affinis as the species name, when the description absolutely applies. 
If Broken Hill cannot be accepted, then I designate the type locality of affinis 
as Pungonda, South Australia. 
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