A pretty little green bird called a greenie or chickowee used to be officially Meliphaga and is now Lichenostomus, and three species of Australian magpies, because they were found to interbreed, are now one species with the old specific names retained as varietal names, so that South Australia's emblem, the white-backed magpie, maggie to his friends, is in full dress Gymnorhina tibicens hypoleuca. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 1] Reference
Gymnorhina leuconota, GOULD. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1: Sent By the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the State of Their Relations with Europeans — Complete] Reference
Gymnorhina tibicen?. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2] Reference
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