Order CUCULIF0RME8. 
No 414. 
Family 8CYTHR0PIDM 
SCYTHROPS NOV^HOLLANDIiE. 
CHANNEL BILL. 
(Plate 361.) 
SOYTHROPS NOV^HOLLANDI^ Latham, Index Omith., Vol. I., p. 141, 1790 : New South 
Wales. 
Psittaceous Hornhill Phillips, Voy. Botany Bay, pi. opp. p. 165, 1789. 
Scythrops novcehollandios Latham, Index Ornith,, Vol. I., p. 141, 1790 ; Vigors and Horsfield, 
Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 306, 1827 ; Gould, Bhds Austr., pt. XXIX., 
Vol. IV., pi. 90, 1847 ; id., Handh. Birds Austr., Vol. L, p. 628, 1865; Castelnau 
and Ramsay, Proc. Linn, Soc. N.S.W., Vol. I, p. 383, 1877 (Q.) ; Ramsay, ib., 
Vol II., p, 192, 1878 ; id., ib., Vol. III., p. 258, 1879 ; id.. Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 
15, 1888 ; Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XIX., p. 330, 1891 ; Beddard, 
Proc. Zool Soc. (Lond.), 1898, p. 44; Hall, Key Birds Austr,, p. 59, 1899; 
Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 588, 1901 ; A. G. Campbell, 
Emu, Vol. II., p. 16, 1902 (Vic.); Berney, ib., 211, 1903 (N.Q.) ; H. L, White, 
ib., Vol. III., p. 233, 1904 (N.S.W.) ; Berney, ib., Vol. IV., p. 46, 1904 (N.Q.) ; 
Hartert, Nov. Zool, Vol. XII., p. 219, 1905 (N.W.A.) ; Berney, Emu, Vol. VI., p. 
45, 1906 (N.Q.) ; id., ib., VoL VII., p. 87, 1907 (N.Q.) ; Ingram, Ibis, 1907, p. 402 
(N.T.) ; Mathews, Hand! Birds Austral, p. 58, 1908 ; id., Emu, Vol X., p. 110, 
1910 (N.W.A.) ; Broadbent, ib., Vol. X., p. 240, 1910 (N.Q.) ; North, Austr. 
Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. III., p. 31, 1911 ; Barnard, Emu, Vol. XI., p. 25, 1911 
(N.Q.) ; G. F. Hill, ib., VoL XII., p. 256, 1913 (N.T.) ; Macgillivray, ib., Vol. XIIL, 
p. 164, 1914 (N.Q.) ; Barnard, z6., p. 207, 1914 (N.T.) ; id., i&., VoL XIV., p. 43, 1916 
(N.T.). 
Anomalous Hornbill White, Joum. Voy. N.S. Whales, pi. opp, p. 142, 1790. 
8cythrops psittaceus Kerr, Animal Kingdom, pt. 1, p. 619, 1792 : New South Wales. 
New Holland Channel BiU Latham, Gen. Synops. Birds SuppI, II., p. 96, pi. 124, 1801. 
8cythrops australasice Shaw, General Zool., Vol. VIII., p. 378, 1811 : New South Wales. 
8cythrops australis Swainson, Classif. Birds, Vol. 11., p. 299, 1837 : New South Wales. 
8cythrops novcehollandice novcehollandice Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 296, 1912 ; 
id.. List Birds Austr., p. 159, 1913. 
8cythrops novcehollandice neglectus Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 297, 1912 : Parry’s 
Creek, North-west Australia ; id.. List Birds Austr., p. 159, 1913. 
Distribution : Queensland ; New South Wales (Victoria and Tasmania) ; Northern 
Territory ; North-west Australia. 
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