WHIT p:-bearded honey-eater. 
The species liad been described by Latham under tlie name Certhia 
novcehollandice, and was figured in White's Journal of a Voyage to New South 
Wales. The figure was at once recognised, but it then tm'ned out that Latham’s 
Sylvia canescens, which liad not been identified, was also given to this bird. 
Latham took his description “ from tlie papers of Mi’. Anderson ” from Van 
Diemen’s Land, and these papers are stiU preserved in the British Museum 
(Natural History), where I referred to them and published the result in the 
Austral Avian Record, Vol. 1., p. 100, 1912, Latham’s name replacing my 
o^vn diemenensis for the Tasmanian subspecies. 
I also advanced A. G. Campbell’s tentative subspecies to recognition but 
overlooked his duplication of his subspecific name. . 
Thus six subspecies were admitted in my “ 1913 List,” but I must now 
admit at least nine, thus : 
Meliornis novcehollandice novcehollandice (Latham). 
New South Wales. 
Meliornis novcehollandice queenslandicus ilathews. 
Smaller and mth a small bill as pointed out by Captain S. A. White. 
Queensland. 
Meliornis novcehollandice assimilis Mathews. 
Victoria. 
Meliornis novcehollandice canescens (Latham). 
Tasmania. 
Meliornis novcehollandice subassimilis Mathews. 
South Australia. 
Meliornis novcehollandice campbelli Mathews. 
Differs in its longer bill than the South Australian bird. 
Kangaroo Island. 
This is A. G. Campbell’s Meliornis novcehollandice subsp. hahnaturina 
which is preoccupied by Aleliornis (Lichmera) australasiana subsp. hahnaturina. 
Meliornis novcehollandice intermedins. 
Differs from AI. n. longirostris (from the Swan River district) in its longer biU, 
paler coloration, etc. 
Stirling Ranges, South-west Australia. 
Aleliornis novcehollandice longirostris (Gould). 
West Australia (Swan River district). 
It is possible that the MaUee (Victorian) bhd is separable, while the Eyre 
Peninsula bird should also be examined; and I have described and figured 
the Myponga bird as a new subspecies. 
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