THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Meliphaga virescens rogersi Mathews, ib. 
Meliphaga virescens cooperi Mathews, ib. 
Meliphaga virescens forresti Mathews, ib. 
Meliphaga virescens ivalgetti Mathews, ib. 
Meliphaga virescens westwoodia Mathews, ib. 
Dorothina virescens everardi Mathews, Bull. Brit. Om. Club, Vol. XXXVI., p. 91, July 
7th, 1916 : Everard Ranges, Central Australia. 
Meliphaga virescens hartogi Mathews, ib., Vol. XL., p. 76, Jan. 30th, 1920 : Dirk Hartog 
Island, West Australia. 
Dorothina virescens virescens Carter, Ibis, 1917, p. 609. 
Distribution. Australia generally. Not Tasmania. 
Adult male. Top of head, nape, and hind-neck pale smoke-brown, with dark shaft-streaks 
to the feathers and tinged with grey ; mantle, back, rump, upper tail-coverts, 
scapulars, and upper wing-coverts oclireous-brown; flight-quills blackish-brown 
fringed with bronze-yellow on the outer webs and margined with pale buff on the 
inner ones ; tail-feathers also blackish-brown fringed with bronze-yellow; lores, 
eye-region, and a broad line along the sides of the crown black; a narrow line 
below' the eye extending to the ear-coverts pale yellow ; ear-coverts white; chin 
and throat greyish-white; fore-neck, breast, and sides of breast pale drab-brown 
tinged with yellow, becoming paler and inclining to buff on the abdomen, sides of 
body, and under tail-covorts ; axillaries and under wing-coverts, and inner margins 
of flight-quills below r pale buff ; remainder of quill-lining and lower aspect of tail 
bronze-brown more or less tinged with yellow. Eyes brown, feet and tarsi dark 
leaden-blue, bill black. Total length 198 mm. ; culmen 16, wing in moult; tail 
S3 ; tarsus 25. Figured. Collected on Apsley Straits, Melville Island, Northern 
Territory, on the 29th of October, 1911, and is the type of P. s. cooperi 
Adult female similar to the adult male. 
Adult female. General colour of the upper-surface dark olive-brown, including the top of 
the head, nape, hind-neck, back, rump, upper tail-coverts, scapulars, and lesser 
upper wing-coverts, more or less tinged with grey on the crown; bastard-wing, 
primary-coverts, and flight-quills dark browm fringed with yellowish-green on the 
outer webs and with whitish on the inner webs of the last; "tail-feathers also dark 
brown fringed with yellowish-green ; lores, eye-region, and a band along the sides 
of the fa.ce which extends on the sides of the neck black ; ear-coverts yellow tipped 
with white ; a slightly indicated moustacial-streak of pale umber-yellow and a dark 
one along the base of the lower mandible ; chin and throat pale yellow ; breast and 
sides of breast pale brown with pale fringes to the feathers, becoming paler and 
inclining to grey on the flanks ; vent buff ; thighs pale rust-colour; under tail- 
coverts similar to the breast but paler ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale 
buff; under-surface of flight-quills hair-brown with yellowish margins; lower 
aspect of tail pale yellowish bronze-brown. Total length 160 mm.; culmen 15, 
wing 90, tail 85, tarsus 25. Collected on Rottnest Island, West Australia, on the 
13th of July, 1903, and is P. insularis Milligan. 
Adult male similar to the adult female. 
Immature female. Top of head, nape, and hind-neck mouse-brown; lores and eyelids 
black ; feathers behind the eye and sides of crown also black; back, rump, upper 
tail-coverts, scapulars, and a portion of the lesser upper wing-coverts ochreous; 
outer aspect of wings greenish-yellow; inner webs of flight-quills hair-brown with 
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