Order PASSERIFORMES. Family MUSCICAPID/E 
No. 440. 
MELANODRYAS CUCULLATA. 
HOODED ROBIN. 
(Plate 379.) 
Muscicapa CUCULLATA Latham, Index Ornith. Suppl., p. li., after May 30th, 1801 : New 
South Wales. 
Muscicapa cucullata Latham, Index Ornith. Suppl., p. li., 1801. 
(Enanthe pectoralis Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. XXI., p. 436, May 30th, 1818 : 
“ Timor ” error = New South Wales. 
Grallina bicolor Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 233, Feb. 
17th, 1827 : Prospect Hill, New South Wales. 
Petroica bicolor Swainson, Zool. Illus., 2nd Series, pi. 43, 1830 : Liverpool Plains, New 
South Wales; Gould, Birds Austr., pt. vm. (Vol. III., pi. 7), Sept. 1st, 1842; 
Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IV., p. 173, 1879 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., 
p. 14, 1906 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 62, 1908. 
Petroica cucullata (Lath.), Strickland, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. XI., p. 337, 1843 ; Gray, 
Genera Birds, Vol. I., p. 183, 1846. 
Melanodryas cucullata Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 283, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. 
Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 183, 1878; Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 169, 
1913. 
Melanodryas picata Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 285 (? Sept.), Dec. 1865: 
North-west coast Australia ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 183, 
1878 ; id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 7, 1888 ; Barnard, Emu, Vol. XIV., p. 44, 
1914 (N.T.). 
Melanodryas bicolor Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 7, 1888 ; Campbell, Nests and 
Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 144, 1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. 
I., p. 170, 1903 ; Chandler, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 38, 1913 (Vic.) ; MacgUlivray, ib., p. 
165, 1914 (Gulf C., Q.) ; Campbell, ib., Vol. XVIII., p. 256, 1919 ; Cleland, ib., p. 279, 
1919 (N.S.W.) 
Petroica bicolor subsp. picata Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IV., p. 174, 1879. 
Melanodryas bicolor (subsp.) picata Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 
146, 1901. 
Melanodryas bicolor picata Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p. 220, 1905 (N.W.A.). 
Petroeca picata Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 14, 1899 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 62, 
1908 ; H. L. White, Emu, Vol. XVI., p. 221, 1917 (N.T.) 
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