THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
(4) Geraldton birds are nearest the preceding, but are brighter and 
more yellow streaked on the throat; this is the yellowest form 
of the Forest series. 
Note (by Ashby). “ Mathews subsp. mellori and whitei are No. 1. 
Typical M. penicillata is No. 2. Mathews subsp. rosince is probably No. 3. 
My own geraldtonensis is No. 4.” 
(Note by me : “ Ashby had not examined specimens of whitei in this 
connection, and Captain S. A. White notes the Murray Flat birds differ from 
the Victorian form, as will, I am sure, be admitted by Ashby when he 
re-examines these.”) 
To the “ desert division ” Ashby refers :— 
(1) East Murchison and Lake Way birds which he does not separate 
from P. carteri (two females only examined). 
(2) Carnarvon, Point Cloates, and Upper Coongan birds agree with 
one from Roeboume and are typical carteri. 
(3) Oodnadatta, River Diamantina, Mt. Benstead, and Flinders 
Rivers birds are all smaller birds than P. carteri, but are placed 
in this section; the black of the ear-coverts in this '‘subspecies” 
are grey. 
Note (by Ashby). ‘ My No. 1 will be Mathew’s ladasi. No. 2 would 
include carteri Campbell and calconi Mathews. No. 3 will include all the 
variants of North’s leilavalensis.” 
(Note by me : Ashby has never seen calconi nor birds from any locality 
near, so that he cannot include it with carteri, from which it is easily 
separable.) 
The above review by Ashby is one of the best class, as it is synthetical as 
well as analytical, and must be productive of good results. 
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