THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Mirajra javanica fallida'S.SiXtQvt, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p. 237, 1905. 
Mirajra rufescens Ingram, Bull. Brit. Ornith. Club, Vol. XVI., p. 116, July 10th, 1906: 
Alexandra, Northern Territory; id., Ibis, 1907, p. 414; H. L. White, Emu, Vol. 
XIII., p. 48, 1913 (Eggs); Barnard, ib., p. 210, 1914 (N.T.); Mathews, Hand!. 
Birds Austral., p. 101, 1908. 
Mirafra horsfieldi halli Bianehi, Bull. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersb., Ser. V., Vol. XXV, 
Nos. 1 and 2, 1906, p. 81, 1907 : new name for “ M. horsfieldi pallidus Hall.” 
Mirafra milligani Mathews, Emu, Vol. VII., Suppl. (Handl. Birds Austral.), p. 101, Jan. 
1908 : new name for “ M. horsfieldi paMidus Hall ” ; id.. Emu, Vol. IX., p. 15, 
1909 (N.W.A.); Crossman, ib., Vol. X., p. 112, 1910 (N.W.A.). 
Mirafra javanica horsfieldi Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p. 236, 1905; Mathews, ib., 
Vol. XVIII., p. 425, 1912; id.. List Birds Austr., p. 296, 1913; Belcher, Birds 
Geelong, p. 357, 1914. 
Mirafra javanica queenslandica Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIIL, p.425, Jan. 31st, 1912: 
Inkerman, Queensland; id.. List Birds Austr., p. 296, 1913. 
Mirafra javanica secunda Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p. 236, 1905; Mathews, ib., 
Vol. XVIIL, p. 425, 1912 ; id.. List Birds Austr., p. 296, 1913 ; Ashby, Emu, 
Vol. XVL, p. 231, 1917 (S.A); id., ib., Vol. XIX., p. 299, 1920 (S.A.). 
Mirafra javanica woodwardi Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. X’VHII., p. 426, 1912; id.. List 
Birds Austr., p. 297, 1913. 
Mirafra javanica milligani Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p. 237, 1905; id., ib., p. 755, 
1906 ; Mathews, ib., Vol. XVIII., p. 426, 1912. 
Mirafra javanica subrufescens Mathews, ib., Jan. 31st, 1912 ; Tabba Tabba, North-west 
Australia ; id.. List Birds Austr., p. 296, 1913 ; id.. South Austr. Orn., Vol. 3, 
p. 226, 1918. 
Mirafra javanica rufescens Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 426, 1912 ; id.. List Birds 
Austr., p. 296, 1913. 
Mirafra javanica nigrescens Mathew^s, Nov. Zool., Vol. XWII., p. 426, Jan. 31st, 1912: 
Eureka, Northern Territory; id.. List Birds Austr., p. 296, 1913. 
Mirafra javanica melvillensis Mathews, Austral AHan Record, Vol. I., pt. 4, p. 102, Sept. 
18th, 1912 : Melville Island; id.. List Birds Austr., p. 296, 1913. 
Mirafra javanica halli Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 296, 1913. 
Mirafra javanica soderbergi ilathews. Austral Avian Record, Vol. IV., pt. 6, p. 137, Aug. 
1st, 1921 : new name for M. j. nigrescens IVIathews; not 3Iirafra nigrescens 
Reichenow, Ornith. Monatsb., 1900, p. 39 (March). 
Anlhus invidens {=insidens) Mathews, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, Vol. XLIV., p. 15, Nov. 5th, 
1923, as synonym of Mirafra horsfieldii ex.. Cotton Tasm. Journ. Nat. Sci., Vol. Ill., 
p. 368, 1848, n.n. 
Distribution. Throughout Australia. Not Tasmania. 
Adult male, (general colour of the upper-surface foxy-red; feathers of the top of the 
head with the shafts dull black, an indistinct collar of paler red feathers round 
the hind-neck; secondaries bronzy-black, very widely margined all round with 
chestnut; innermost primaries mostlj^ chestnut, and blackish along the shafts; 
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