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26 SOUTH AUSTRALIAN ORNITHOLOGIST, 30 A WESTERN YELLOW ROBIN IN THE ALDINGA SCRUB C.B. ASHTON The Western Yellow Robin Eopsaltria Prior to the present sighting of a bird in the griseogularis ranges in south-western Western Aldinga Scrub (approximately 45 km S of Australia from Shark Bay to Kalgoorlie and Adelaide), the species had not been recorded Eucla and it also occurs in South Australia in east of Eyre Peninsula. Notes made at the time the Eyre Peninsula region north to the Gawler of the sighting are summarized below. Ranges (Ford 1963, 1971). The South Australian populations are referable to the DESCRIPTION subspecies E. g. rosinae (Ford 1971). The At 0730 on 18 January 1984 in good light, I species occurs in eucalypt forest, woodland, saw a bird in a thick copse of Golden Wattle mallee, melaleuca and acacia scrub, invariably Acacia pycnantha in the northern part of the with a 2-3 m shrub-layer (Ford 1971). Aldinga Scrub. In flight it resembled a smallish MARCH,1986 27 female Golden Whistler Pachycepha/a pec I have viewed specimens of both species at the toralis. I observed it with 10 x 50 binoculars South Australian Museum. There has been from 20 metres for 30 seconds. When perched it discussion as to whether the sighting was ofsuf drooped its wings. The bird also flew down and ficient duration to allow a positive identifica clung sideways to the wattle's trunk for five tion of this bird, however, I am satisfied that seconds and once fluttered out about 2 m from the bird I have described above, with its grey the foliage. It was lost to my sight when it flew chest and olive-yellow rump, was a Western amongst Kangaroo Thorn A. paradoxa and I Yellow Robin. last saw it flying south-easterly at a distance of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 50 metres. The bird did not call. I wish to thank S.A. Parker, Curator of Birds, South Description. Above: dark grey with an olive tinge on the Australian Museum, for making the Museum's specimens back. Wings and tail: brown-grey, primary feathers edg of yellow robins available to me. ed paler. Rump: olive-yellow. Lores: blackish. Bill: black. Below: chest pale grey, lighter on the throat; ab REFERENCES domen bright yellow. Legs: black. Ford, J. 1963. Geographic variation in the Yellow Robin in I have been acquainted with the Western Western Australia. Emu 62: 241-248. Yellow Robin at two localities in Western Ford, J. 1971.Distribution, ecology and taxonomy of some Australia and with the similar Eastern Yellow Western Australian Passerine birds. Emu 71: 103-120. Robin E. australis, distinguished by its yellow P.O. Box 125, Aldinga Beach, S.A. 5173 instead of grey breast, in the South-East of South Australia and in the eastern states. Also, Received 11 April 1985; accepted 14 June 1985.

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