THE BIRDS OE AUSTRALIA. 
I admitted : 
Lichenostomus cratitius cratitius (Gould). 
Kangaroo Island. 
Lichenostomus cratitius zarda (Mathews). 
South Australia. 
Lichenostomus cratitius howei (Mathews). 
Victoria. 
Lichenostomus cratitius carpentariensis (Campbell). 
Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland. 
Lichenostomus cratitius stirlingi (Mathews). 
Stirling Ranges, West Australia. 
Lichenostomus cratitius occidentalis Cabanis. 
South-west Australia (Albany district). 
In view of Ashby’s suggestion that the birds frequenting the 90-mile 
Desert of South Australia and the Victorian Mallee are the same, I find that 
in some cases the birds from these two localities are distinctly separable, so 
that each case must be dealt with with the material available. Again, Carter 
has suggested that it does not occur at Albany itself but that it reaches 
eastw r ard to the Stirling Ranges, while Milligan found it commonly in the 
Wongan Hills, but Alexander does not include it in his List of Birds of the Perth 
District. It is possible therefore that Cabanis’ specimen came from the 
Wongan Hills, as it would not have been secured in the Stirling Range districts 
at that early date. 
The names would then be: 
Lichenostomus cratitius cratitius (Gould). 
Upper Torrens, South Australia. 
Lichenostomus cratitius howei (Mathews). 
Kow Plains, Victoria. 
Lichenostomus cratitius zarda (Mathews). 
Eyre Peninsula, South Australia. 
Lichenostomus cratitius stirlingi (Mathews). 
Stirling Ranges, West Australia. 
The inter-relationships of these four require re-investigation. 
Lichenostomus cratitius occidentalis Cabanis. 
West Australia (Albany may be wrong ? 
Wongan Hills). 
(?) Lichenostomus (cratitius) carpentariensis (Campbell). 
Burketown, Gulf of Carpentaria. 
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