Order PASSERIFORMES . 
No. 436. 
Family MUSCICAPIDJE. 
WHITEORNIS GOODENOVII. 
RED-CAPPED ROBIN. 
(Plate 379.) 
Mtjscicapa GOODENOVII Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 245, 
Feb. 17th, 1827 : South Australia. 
Muscicapa goodenovii Vigors & Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 247, 
1827. 
Petroica goodenovii Jardine and Selby, Illus. Ornith., Vol. II., Add. 1830 ; Gould, Synops. 
Birds Austr., pt. i., pi. (7), Jan. 1837 ; id., Birds Austr., pt. vm. (Vol. III., pi. 5), 
Sept. 1st, 1842 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 280, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. 
Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 183, 1878 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IV., 
p. 171, 1879 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 7, 1888 ; North, Austr. Mus. 
Cat. No. 12, p. 103, 1890 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 143, 
1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1. Vol. I., p. 168, 1903 ; Lawson, Emu, Vol. 
IV., p. 134, 1905 (Rottnest Island) ; Milligan, ib., p. 50, 1904 (W.A.) ; Berney, ib., 
Vol. V., p. 72, 1905 (Q.) ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 62, 1908; Chandler, 
Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 38, 1913 (Vic.) ; Sanders, ib., Vol. XIV., p. 219, 1915 (S.A.) ; 
Cleland, ib., Vol. XVIII., p. 279, 1919 (N.S.W.) ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 13. 
Petroeca ramsayi Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IV., p. 172 (pref. March), 1879 : Shark’s 
Bay, mid-West Australia ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 7, 1888 ; Campbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 144, 1901 ; Hall, Emu, Vol. I., p. 9, 1901 
(Vic. ?) ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 62, 1908 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 14. 
Petoeca goodenovii Broadbent, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensl., Vol. III., p. 28, 1887 (Q.). 
Petroica goodenovii goodenovii Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 304, 1912. 
Petroica goodenovii quoyi Mathews, ib., p. 305, Jan. 31st, 1912 : (Narawa) New South 
Wales. 
Petroica goodenovii rujicapilla Mathews, ib. : Broome Hill, South-west Australia. 
Petroica goodenovii ramsayi Mathews, ib. 
Petroica goodenovii alexandrce Mathews, ib. : Alexandra, Northern Territory. 
Whiteornis goodenovii goodenovii Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 169, 1913. 
Whiteornis goodenovii quoyi Mathews, ib. 
Whiteornis goodenovii ruficapillus Mathews, ib. 
Whiteornis goodenovii ramsayi Mathews, ib. 
Whiteornis goodenovii alexandrce Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. Australia. Not Tasmania. 
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