Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 458. 
Family MUSCICAPIDjE. 
TREGELLASIA CAPITO. 
LARGE-HEADED ROBIN. 
(Plate 390.) 
Eopsaltria capito Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1851, p. 285, June 14th, 1854: 
Brisbane River, Queensland. 
Eopsaltria capito Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1851, p. 285, 1854; id., Birds. Austr. 
Suppl., pi. 17 (pt. ii.), Sept. 1st, 1855; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 297, 
1865 ; Diggles, Orn. Austr., pt. xix., 1868 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 
Vol. II., p. 183, 1878 ; id., Tab. List. Austr. Birds, p. 7, 1888. 
Eopsaltria nana Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 372, June 1878: Cardwell, 
Queensland ; id., Tab. List. Austr. Birds, p. 7, 1888. 
Pcecilodryas capito Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IV., p. 245, 1879 ; Hall, Key Birds 
Austr., p. 15, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 150, 1901 ; 
North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., p. 179, 1903 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds 
Austral., p. 65, 1908. 
Pcecilodryas nana Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IV., p. 246, 1879 ; Hall, Key Birds 
Austr., p. 15, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 151, 1901 ; 
North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., p. 180, 1903 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds 
Austral,., p. 65, 1908 ; Campbell and Barnard, Emu, Vol. XVII., p. 22, 1917. 
Pachycephala capito capito Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 312, 1912. 
Pachycephala capito nana Mathews, ib., p. 313. 
Tregellasia capito capito Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 177, 1913. 
Tregellasia capito nana Mathews, ib. 
Tregellasia capito barroni Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. III., pt. 3, p. 59, April 7th, 
1916 : Barron River, Queensland. 
Distribution. New South Wales (north) to Queensland (Cairns). 
Adult female. Crown of head and nape ochreous-brown shading off into grey on the 
hind-neck ; back, wings and tail dark yellowish-green ; upper wing-coverts and 
outer margins of quills similar to the back ; greater upper wing-coverts, primary- 
coverts, and inner webs of flight-quills smoke-brown, the last broadly margined 
with white on the basal portion which becomes buff y- white on the innermost 
secondaries ; tail-feathers smoke-brown fringed with bronze-green and tipped with 
white ; lores and feathers in front of the eye rufous-buff the latter minutely tipped 
with black, rictal bristles also black ; throat white becoming grey on the cheeks 
and hinder-face ; breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts yellow becoming yellowish- 
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