
%0 Journal Article
%A Schodde, R 
%A Mason, IJ 
%T A new subspecies of <I>Colluricincla megarhyncha</I> Quoy and Gaimard from the Northern Territory
%J Emu
%D 1976/09/01
%V 76
%N 3
%P 109-114
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/MU9760109
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/MU9760109 
%X Colluricincla megarhyncha (brownish-grey-billed group) is recorded for the first time for the Northern Territory, from mangroves at the mouths of the McArthur and probably Roper Rivers. The local form is described as a new subspecies; C.m aelptes; characterized by a pallid undersurface, rather heavily streaked breast, pale-buff eye-brow and long bill. Aelptes is intermediate in morphology and geographical position between eastern Australian forms of megarhyncha and Colluricincla parvula from north-western Australia, implying that parvula and megarhyncha are conspecific. 
