Order PASSERIFORMES. Family MUSCIOAPID M. 
No. 437. 
LITTLEEA CHRYSOPTERA. 
FLAME-BKEASTEJ) ROBIN. 
(Plate 378.)* 
Mttscicapa cheysoptera Quoy et Gaimard, Voy. de “ 1’Astrol.,” ZooL, Vol. I., p. 177, 
pi. 4, fig. 2 (pref. June 29th), 1830 : Hobart, Tasmania. 
Muscicapa chrysoptera Quoy et Gaimard, Yoy. de “ l’Astrol.,” Zool., Yol. I., p. 177, pi. 4, 
fig. 2, 1830. 
Petroica phcenicea Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. i., pi. (7), Jan. 1st, 1837 : New South 
Wales; id., Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1836, p. 105, Feb. 20th, 1837; id., Birds 
Austr., pt. vm. (Vol. III., pi. 6), Sept. 1st, 1842 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Yol. I., 
p. 282, 1865; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 183, 1878; Sharpe, 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IV., p. 166, 1879; Legge, Papers Proc. Roy. Soc. 
Tasm., 1886, p. 239, 1887 (Tas.) ; id., ib., 1887, p. 88, 1888 (Tas.) ; Ramsay, 
Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 7, 1888 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., 
p. 136, 1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., p. 165, 1903; Legge, 
Emu, Vol. VII., p. 145, 1908 (Tas.) ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 62, 1908 ; 
Campbell, A. G., Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 122, 1909 ; Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 23, 
1910 ; Witmer Stone, Austral Ay. Rec., Vol. I., p. 155, 1913 (S.A. error) ; Mellor 
and White, Emu, Vol. XII., p. 162, 1913 (Flinders Island) ; Dove, ib., p. 195 (Tas.) ; 
Chandler, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 37, 1913 (Vic.) ; S. A. White, ib., Vol. XIV., p. 140, 
1915 (Vic.) ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 13. 
Petroica phcenicea phcenicea Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 304, Jan. 31st, 1912. 
Petroica phcenicea albicans Mathews, ib. : Bayswater, Victoria. - ' * 
Petroica chrysoptera addenda Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 4, p. 89, Sept. 18th, 
1912 : Goulburn, New South Wales. 
Littlera chrysoptera chrysoptera Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 168, 1913. 
Littlera chrysoptera phcenicea Mathews, ib. ; Belcher, Birds Geelong, p. 224, 1914. 
Littlera chrysoptera addenda Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. New South Wales ; Victoria ; South Australia ; Tasmania. 
Adult male. Crown of head, sides of face, chin, sides of neck, hind-neck, back, upper tail- 
coverts, and lesser upper wing-coverts dusky-black ; inner median and greater 
* The Plate is lettered Petroica phcenicea. 
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