THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
bare-eye space coloration as of great value and did not even record it as a 
diagnostic feature in the two new subspecies I added at that time. 
I thus arranged the species : 
Melithreptus lunatus lunatu-s (Shaw). 
New South Wales, Victoria. 
Melithreptus lunatus adelaidensis Mathews. 
Differs from M. 1. lunatus in being lighter above. Adelaide, South Australia." 
South Australia. 
Melithreptus lunatus whitlocki Mathews. 
South-west Australia. 
Melithreptus lunatus cliloropsis Gould. 
West Australia (Perth district). 
Melithreptus lunatus vinitinctus De Vis. 
Queensland (Gulf of Carpentaria). 
Melithreptus lunatus albogularis Gould. 
North Queensland. 
Melithreptus lunatus subalbogularis Mathews. 
“ Differs from M. 1. albogularis in its smaller size and paler coloration. 
Derby, North-west Australia.” 
North-west Australia. 
When Rogers sent me specimens from Melville Island I named them: 
Melithreptus lunatus gradus. 
“ Differs from M. 1. subalbogidaris in its smaller size and less yellowish on the 
back.” 
Afterward Witmer Stone wrote that Gould specimens at Philadelphia 
at that time regarded as types were from Port Essington. Previously, as 
Gould stated that the species was described from Northern and Eastern 
Australia, I had considered Queensland birds as typical. I therefore named 
the Cape York bird 
Melithreptus lunatus yorki. 
“ Differs from M. 1. albogularis (from Port Essington) in being more greenish- 
yellow above, and in having a wider white nuchal band on the back of the 
head.” 
In my 1913 “ List ” I did not allow these last two as I had not Port 
Essington birds and therefore admitted just as in 1912. 
As both Barnard and McLennan agree that the Cape York bird is not the 
same as the Gulf one, and as Campbell states the King River birds are like 
Derby ones, it is necessary to allow the whole of the named forms. 
If it be still doubtful whether albogularis be specific or subspecific the 
names will need consideration, thus: 
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