BLACK-TAILED TREECREEPER. 
greyish-white, as are also the centres of the breast-feathers. The ear-coverts 
of W. m. alexandrce are brownish-black with white shaft-stripes, but in W. m. 
melanura the ear-covert striations are of buff.” 
This leaves the three forms and names as in my 1913 “ List ” : 
Whitlocka melanura melanura (Gould). 
North-west Australia. 
Whitlocka melanura wellsi Grant. 
Mid-west Australia. 
Whitlocka melanura alexandrce Mathews. 
Northern Territory and North Queensland 
(Gulf Country). 
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