Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 432. 
Family MUSCICAPID/E. 
MICROECA FASCINANS. 
BROWN FLYCATCHER. 
(Plate 376.) 
Loxia fascinans Latham, Index Omith. Suppl., p. xlvi., after May 30th, 1801 : New 
South Wales. 
Fascinating Grosbeak Latham, Gen. Synops. Birds, Suppl. II., p. 197, 1801. 
White-tailed Warbler Latham, ib., p. 249. 
Loxia fascinans Latham, Index Ornith. Suppl., p. xlvi., 1801. 
Sylvia leucophcea Latham, ib., p. lv. (after May 30th) 1801 : New South Wales; VieiEot, 
Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. XI., p. 189, 1817. 
Coccothraustes fascinans VieiEot, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 521, 1817. 
Myiagra macroptera Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 254, 
Feb. 17th, 1827 : New South Wales. 
Muscicapa platyrliyncha Quoy et Gaimard, Voy. de “l’Astrol.,” Zool., Vol. I., p. 178 (pref. 
June 30th), 1830 : New South Wales. 
Microeca macroptera Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1840, p. 172, 1841 ; id., Birds Austr., 
pt. 32 (Vol. II., pi. 93), Sept. 1st. 1848. 
Microeca fascinans “Gould” Strickland, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. XI., p. 337, 1843; 
Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 320, 1851 ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., 
Vol. I., p. 258, 1865; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1875, p. 586; id., Proc. 
Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 182, 1878; id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 6, 1888; 
Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IV., p. 123, 1879; Campbell, Nests and Eggs 
Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 105, 1901 ; North, Aust. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., 
pt. m., p. 149, 1903 ; HaE, Key Birds Austr., p. 13, 1906 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds 
Austral., p. 61, 1908; Cleland, Emu, Vol. XVIII., p. 279, 1919 ; Mathews, List Birds 
Austr., p. 165, 1913. 
Microeca assimilis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1840, p. 172, July 1841 : Western 
Australia ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 260, 1865 ; id., Birds New Guinea, 
pt. xi. (Vol. II., pi. 10), Feb. 1st, 1880 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., 
p. 182, 1878 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IV., p. 124, 1879 ; Ramsay, Proc. 
Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Ser. 2, Vol. I., p. 1089, 1886 ; id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 
6, 1888 ; CampbeE, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 106, Vol. II., p. 1075, 
1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., p. 150, 1903 ; Mathews, Handl, 
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