Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No 467. 
Family MUSCICAPIDIE. 
ALISTERORNIS LANIOIDES. 
WHITE-BELLIED THICKHEAD. 
(Plate 396.) 
Pachycephala lanioides Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1839, p. 142, March 1840 : 
North-west coast Australia — Derby. 
Pachycephala lanioides* Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1839, p. 142, 1840 ; id., Birds 
Austr.,pt. 17 (Vol. II., pi. 69), Dec. 1st, 1844; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., 
p. 214, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 181, 1878 ; Gadow, 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. VIII., p. 224, 1883 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 5, 
1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 34, 1899 ; id., Viet. Nat., Vol. XVIII., p. 30, 1901 ; 
Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 328, 1901 ; Hall, Emu, Vol. I., 
p. 95, 1901 (N.W.A.) ; Mathews, Hand! Birds Austral., p. 86, 1908 ; A. J. 
Campbell, Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 143, 1909 (N.W.A.) ; H. L. White, ib., Vol. XVI., 
p. 226, 1917 (N.T.) ; A. J. Campbell, ib., Vol. XVIII., pp. 7/257, 1918. 
Pachycephala fretorumDe Vis, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensl., Vol. VI., p. 237, 1889 : Cambridge 
Gulf, Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 34, 1899 ; 
Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 328, 1901 ; Mathews, Handl. 
Birds Austral., p. 86, 1908. 
Pachycephala lanioides lanioides Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 316, 1912. 
Pachycephala lanioides fretorum Mathews, ib. 
Pachycephala lanioides buchanani Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 3, p. 77, June 
28th, 1912 : Buchanan Island, Northern Territory. 
Alisterornis lanioides lanioides Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 180, 1913. 
Alisterornis lanioides buchanani Mathews, ib., p. 181. 
Alisterornis lanioides fretorum Mathews, ib. 
Alisterornis lanioides carnarvoni Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., pt. 4, p. 75, Dec. 29th, 
1913 : Carnarvon, mid-West Australia. 
Distribution. From Carnarvon, mid-W est Australia, northwards (coastal in mangroves) 
to the Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland. 
Adult male. Crown of head, nape, sides of face, and a broad band across the lower-throat 
deep black ; chin black with hair-like tips to the feathers ; a smoke-brown band 
on the hind-neck which extends across the upper- breast skirting the black band on the 
* Also misspelt lanoides. 
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