THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
I recently named the western Tasmanian form on account of its darker 
coloration, and it is worth emphasizing the fact that the Tasmanian avtforms 
vary among themselves in the different districts as this is a subject vet 
imstudied. The King Island subspecies may be named 
Creadion paradoxus kingi, subsp. nov. 
being not so yellowish on the under-surface as the Tasmanian bhd and the 
wattles not so long. The bird I figured has a much smaller bill than Gould’s 
type, so I caU it Creadion paradoxus hrevirostris, subsp. nov. 
The name westernensis is a synonym. 
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