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THE BIRDS OF AUSTRAIHA. 
prepared before that event, and I gave a short note of his results in the Emu. 
As all Crows are “ black,” Stresemann lumped all the species from Japan 
to Tasmania as one species, and then allowed twenty subspecies, a somewhat 
incongraous assemblage. When he treated the Australian birds, ignorant of the 
nature of the land and confusing localities, he allowed four subspecies as follows: 
Corvus coronoides coronoides Vigors and Horsfield, 
New South Wales. 
Average -wing-length, 359 mm. Average bill length, 55’8 mm. 
Corvus coronoides perplexus Mathews. 
Victoria, South Austraha, Tasmania and 
South-wCst Australia. 
Average ving-length Victoria ex 335*9 ; South Australia, 333’0; South¬ 
west Australia (Albany 345, Perth 315 mm.) ; Tasmania, 337, 341, 342, 361; 
Average bill length Victoria 50’8; South Australia, 50*8; South-west 
Australia (Albany 52, Perth 49 mm.); Tasmania, 54, 55, 57, 63. 
He queried the Tasmanian examples as different. 
Corvus coronoides hennetti North. 
Cape York, Queensland. 
Average length, 322 mm. Average bill length, 51*5. 
Corvus coronoides cecilce Mathews. 
Northern Territory, North-west Australia and 
South-west Austraha. 
Average vdng-length, 335*2 mm. Average bill-length, 53*5 mm. 
The inaccuracies of this arrangement are obvious. 
The New South Wales form is considered a distinct subspecies, and then 
North’s C. hennetti, which was described from the interior of Southern New 
South Wales, is used for Cape York birds, my C. h. queenslandicus, which 
Ogilvie-Grant pointed out were not C. hennetti. 
The series Stresemann examined was that received from Cape York, collected 
by Kemp after Ogilvie-Grant’s account appeared. The figures given by Strese¬ 
mann and included in his averages represent many birds of the first year, and 
the full adults vary from about 325—355, giving an average of 330-335, which 
represents the Cape York subspecies, the bill in the adult is from 52-55. North’s 
C. hennetti, which is very distinct, has a wing-length of 312 mm. and a hill- 
length of 47—48*5. Moreover, an item which is often overlooked is that 
while the bill-length and wing-length are used for comparisons, no notice 
is taken of bulk, which in this case is very different, as the bulk of C. 
hennetti is noticeably less than that of C. queenslandicus. 
Under C. c. cecilce, Stresemann includes the Fitzroy Range birds, with vings 
306, 312 and 317, Avith the Napier Broome Bay birds, with vdngs 354, 355, 357, 
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