FAIRY WARBLER. 
The following series is before me : the type of flavida from the Upper Herbert 
River, a female from Cairns and a skin (sexed male) from Cardwell, all the 
property of the Sydney Museum, kindly sent over to me on loan. One male 
and two females from Bartle Frere ; one female from Bellenden Ker; three 
males and one female from the Barron River ; two males and three females 
from Kuranda, and one female from Cairns and the male from the Johnstone 
River (a type), making a total of 18 skins. 
Two males from the Barron River and a male from Kuranda, and the type 
of johnstoni have the “ bib ” indicated as shown on plate 387 (upper figure) in 
Vol. VIII. of my Birds of Australia. This bib is not seen in the type of flavida. 
If this bib disappears with age, and the chin and throat become yellowish- 
grey, then flavida is a species, with johnstoni as a synonym, and the distribution 
from Bellenden Ker to the Johnstone River. 
Otherwise we have johnstoni from Cardwell (the upper figure on the opposite 
plate, which I think must be a female), Kuranda and the Barron River, as a 
sub-species of palpebrosa ; and flavida from the Upper Herbert River to Cairns 
and Bellenden Ker. 
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