THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
voices ’ the chorus of the loud hubbling-like notes of the Yellow Orioles drowned 
aU others. The birds frequently visited the orchards after cultivated fruit. 
They were pretty figures in the pa-paw trees. They were laying during October. 
The Cardwell bird is larger and much brighter (more yellowish) in colour 
compared vdth birds from the Northern Territory—the type locality of fiavi- 
cinctus ; therefore Mathews’s Mngi would be an acceptable name to distinguish 
the southern and more handsome race.” 
The whole of the northern birds were classed as one species without any 
distinguishhig remarks until I prepared my “ Reference list ” in 1912, when 
I proposed to divide it into three subspecies, as 
Oriolus flavocirictiLS flavocinctus (King). 
Northern Territory: North-west Australia. 
Oriolus jlavocinctus Tcingi Mathews. 
“ Differs from O. f. jlavocinctus in its lighter coloration : wing 152 mm. Cairns, 
Queensland.” 
Queensland (Cairns). 
Oriolus jlavocinctus madaraszi Mathews. 
“ Differs from 0. j. kingi in its smaller size wing 142 mm. Cooktowm, Queensland.” 
North Queensland. 
A little later I separated 
Oriolus jlavocinctus jparryi. 
“ Differs from 0. j. jlavocinctus in its much fighter yellow' coloration and 
heavier bill: Parry’s Creek, North-western Australia.” 
North-west Australia. 
In my 1913 “ List ” I transferred the species back to the genus Mmeta 
and synonymised the two Queensland forms, allowing only 
Mimeta jlavocincta jlavocincta (King). 
Northern Territory. 
Mimeta jlavocincta parryi Mathews. 
North-west Australia. 
Mimeta jlavocincta kingi Mathews. 
North Queensland. 
Campbell, deafing with King River specimens, observed: “ One o. one $. 
Gilbert likewise procured a pair of these fine birds, wliich possess more black 
markings on the back than east- and w'est-coast specimens, but agree with the 
latter in their fighter (olive-yellow) under-surface. East-coast birds have a 
richer yellow (yellowdsh-citrine) above and below, and have more yellow in the 
light-colomed edgings of the wing-feathers and tail tips and are slightly larger. 
Two races can therefore be easily discerned visually—the type [jlavo-cinctus) from 
north and north-west, and the more handsome, kingi Mathews, on the east.” 
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