THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Hermite Island ; occurs throughout the (Monte BeUo) group,” and through 
the comparison I added 
Anthiis australis rogersi. 
“ Differs from A. a. tribulationis, and every other Australian subspecies, in 
being very dark, the feathers on the upper-surface and on the breast beiug 
very dark blackish-brown.” 
Melville Island. 
In my 1913 “ List ” these ten subspecies were listed, but since then I 
have named 
Anthus australis hartogi. 
“ Grormd Pipits were fairly plentiful both on Dirk Hartog Island and 
the Peron peninsula, but as those occurring on Dirk Hartog persistently differ 
from the others in being generally much paler in colour, and having broader 
ochreous-yeUow margins to the feathers of the mantle, as well as having smaller 
stripes on the breast, Ave describe the Dirk Haidog bird under the above name 
as a new subspecies.” 
Consequently I allow twelve subspecies, classmg them under Austranihuis 
as follows:— 
Austranthus australis australis (VieiUot). 
Austranthus australis bistriatus (Swainson). 
Austranthus australis adelaidensis (Mathews). 
Austranthus australis bilbali (Mathews). 
Austranthus australis subaustralis (Mathews). 
Austranthus australis hartogi (Carter). 
Austi'anihus australis montebelli (Montague). 
Austranthus australis subrufus (Mathews). 
Austranthus australis tribulationis (Mathews). 
Austranthus australis rogersi (Mathews). 
Austranthus australis queenslandicus (Mathev’s). 
Austranthus australis Jlindersi (INIathews). 
Differs from A. australis in being darker above and more heavily marked below 
Flinders Island. 
Probably many more will be separated, as the above shoAV great differences 
if such forms as rogersi and subrufus be compared, and Rogers noted that 
different forms of Mirafra were discernible in the North West where at present 
I have only allowed one form of Anthus, and this group seems almost as 
susceptible to colour variation as that one. 
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