Order PASSERIFORMES . 
No. 476. 
Family MUSCICAPIDM. 
HOWEAVIS RUFIFRONS. 
RUFOUS FANTAIL. 
(Plate 402.) 
Muscicapa RUFIFRONS Latham. Index Omith. Suppl., p. l., (after May 30th) 1801 : New 
South Wales. 
Muscicapa rufifrons Latham, Index Omith. Suppl., p. l., 1801 ; Lewin, Birds New 
Holland, pi. 17, 1808. 
Rhipidura rufifrons Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 248, 
1827 ; Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xxin. (Vol. II., pi. 84), June 1st, 1846 ; id., Handb. 
Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 240, 1865; Masters, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. I., p. 50, 
Feb. 1876 (N.Q.) ; Ramsay, ib., Vol. II., p. 182, 1878 ; Sharpe, Gat. Birds Brit. 
Mus., Vol. IV., p. 319, 1879; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 6, 1888; Hall, 
Key Birds Austr., p. 17, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., 
p. 112, 1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., p. 127, 1903; A. G. 
Campbell, Emu, Vol. VII., p. 38, 1907 (Vic.) ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., 
p. 65, 1908; Barnard, Emu, Vol. XI., p. 25, 1911 (N.T.). 
Rhipidura dryas Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1842, p. 132, Feb. 1843 : Port Essing- 
ton, Northern Territory ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 242, 1865 ; 
id.. Birds New Guinea, pt. n. (Vol. II., pi. 32), Jan. 1st, 1876; Ramsay, 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 182, 1878 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. 
IV., p. 322, 1879 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 6, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds 
Austr., p. 17, 1899; North, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. XXVII., p. 72, 
1902 ; id., Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., p. 131, 1903 ; Le Souef, Emu, 
Vol. III., p. 55, 1903 (N.T.) ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 65, 1908; 
Hill, Emu, Vol. X., p. 275, 1911 (N.W.A.) ; Macgillivray, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 168,. 
1914 (N.Q.) ; McLennan, ib., Vol. XVI., p. 232, 1917 (N.T.); Campbell, ib., Vol. 
XVIII., p. 182, 1919. 
Rhipidura intermedia North, Viet. Naturalist, Vol. XIX., p. 101, Nov. 6th, 1902 r 
Bellenden Ker Range, Queensland; id., Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., 
p. 130, 1903; Sclater, Bull. Brit. Om. Club, Vol. XV., p. 8, 1904; Hartert, ib., 
p. 10; Hall, Key Birds Austr., 2nd ed., p. Ill, 1906; Mathews, Handl. Birds- 
Austral., p. 65, 1908 ; Campbell and Barnard, Emu, Vol. XVTI., p. 23, 1917 (N.Q.) ; 
Macgillivray, ib., p. 197, 1918 (N.Q.). 
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