In 1928 Australian ornithologist Gregory Mathews recognized that the plumage of the race from Lord Howe Island was much browner and more greyish than the plumage of the Norfolk Island race and split the species into two forms, the Norfolk Starling (Aplonis fusca fusca), and Lord Howe Starling (Aplonis fusca hulliana).
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It is an extinct subspecies of the Tasman Starling (Aplonis fusca), the only other subspecies being the Norfolk Starling which is also extinct.