Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 442. 
Family MUSCIOAPIDM 
SMICRORNIS BREVXROSTRIS. 
TREE-TIT. 
(Plate 381.) 
Psilopus brevirostris Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., pi. 61, April 1st, 1838 : New 
South Wales. 
Psilopus brevirostris Gould, Synops Birds Austr., pt. iv., pi. 61, April 1st, 1838 ; id., 
Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1837, p. 147, Dec. 1838. 
Smicrornis brevirostris Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1842, p. 134, 1843; id., Birds 
Austr., pt. xxxiy. (Vol. II., pi. 103), Dec. 1st, 1848; id., Handb. Birds Austr., 
Vol. I., p. 273, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 183, 1878 ; 
Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IV., p. 209, 1879 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. 
Birds, p. 7, 1888; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 153, 1901 ; 
North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., pt. in., p. 189, 1903 ; Hall, Key Birds 
Austr., p. 14, 1906; Mathews, Hand! Birds Austral., p. 62, 1908; S. A. White, 
Emu, Vol. XII., p. 3, 1912 (S.A.) ; Chandler, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 38, 1913 (Vic.); 
Cleland, ib., Vol. XVIII., p. 279, 1919 (N.S.W.). 
Smicrornis flavescens Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1842, p. 134, Eeb. 1843 : Port 
Essington, Northern Territory ; id., Birds Austr., pt. xxi. (Vol. II., pi. 104), Dec. 
1st, 1845; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 274, 1865; Ramsay, Proc. 
Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 183, 1878; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 
Vol. IV., p. 210, 1879; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 7, 1888; 
North, Rep. Horn. Sci. Exped., Aves, p. 84, 1896 (C.A.) ; Campbell, Nests and 
Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 154, 1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. 
No. 1, Vol. I., p. 190, 1903; Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p. 220, 1905 
(N.W.A.) ; Berney, Emu, Vol. V., p. 73, 1905 (Q.) ; Hah, Key Birds Austr., p. 14, 
1906; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 63, 1908; Whitlock, Emu, Vol. VIII., 
p. 179, 1909 (W.A.) ; Hill, ib., Vol. X., p. 273, 1911 (N.W.A.) ; Macgillivray, 
ib., Vol. XIII., p. 165, 1914 (Gulf Carp.) ; Barnard, ib., Vol. XIV., p. 44, 1914 
(N.T.) ; H. L. White, ib., Vol. XVI., p. 221, 1917 (N.T.) ; Campbell, ib., Vol. 
XVIII., p. 181, 1918 (N.T.). 
Pardalotus brevirostris Grajr, Genera Birds, Vol. III., App., p. 13, 1849. 
Pardalotus flavescens Gray, ib. 
Smicrornis occidentals Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Ay., Vol. I., pt. n., p. 293, Eeb. 3rd, 1851 : 
West Australia. Nomen nudum. 
