
%0 Journal Article
%A Parker, S.A. 
%T Remarks on distribution and taxonomy of the grass wrens <i>Amytornis textilis, modestus</i> and <i>purnelli</i>
%J Emu
%D 1972/12/01
%V 72
%N 4
%P 157-166
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/MU972157
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/MU972157 
%X The literature of Amytormris textilis, modestus and purnelli contains discrepancies. Textilis and purnelli are currently regarded as conspecific and modestus as a separate species, although no reasons have ever been given to support this. I conclude that textilis and modestus are conspecific and purelli a separate species, and show that North concluded this in 1902. Thus, two species are here recognized; Amytornis textilis (including modestus), a stout-billed species of saltbush, bluebush, cottonbush and similar cover on plains, and of Zygochloa and flood-debris along watercourses, and Amytornis purnelli (including ballarae), a more slender-billed species of rocky hillsides covered with Triodia. The two are sympatric in parts of southern Northern Territory. 
