Order PASSERIFORMES. Family MUSCIGAPID JE. 
No. 486. 
PIEZORHYNCHUS ALECTO. 
SHINING FLYCATCHER. 
(Plate 409.) 
[Drymophela alecto Temminck and Laugier, Planch. Color. d’Ois., 72 e livr. (Vol. IV., 
pi. 430), April 25th, 1827 : “Celebes” error = Ternate. Extra-limital.] 
Piezorhynchus nitidus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1840, p. 171, July 1841 : North- 
west coast, Australia = Port Essington, Northern Territory. 
Piezorhynchus nitidus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1840, p. 171, 1841 ; id., Birds 
Austr., pt. xiv. (Vol. II., pi. 88), March 1st, 1844 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., 
p. 249, 1865 ; Masters, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. I., p. 50, 1876 (N.Q.) Ramsay, 
ib., Vol. II., p. 182, 1878 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IV., p. 416, 1879 ; 
Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 6, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 19, 1899 ; 
Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 129, 1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. 
Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., p. 141, 1903 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 67, 
1908 ; Hill, Emu, Vol. X., p. 277, 1911 (N.W.A.) ; id., ib., Vol. XII., p. 257, 1913 
(N.T.) ; Macgillivray, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 169, 1914 (N.Q.) ; McLennan, ib., Vol. 
XVI., p. 223, 1917 (N.T.) ; Macgillivray, ib., Vol. XVII., p. 199, 1918 (N.Q.) ; 
Campbell, ib., Vol. XVIII., p. 183, 1919 (N.T.). 
Seisura nitida Gray, Handl. Gen. Sp. Birds B.M., pt. i., p. 327, 1869. 
Monarcha chalybeocephalus nitidus Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p. 223, 1905. 
Piezorhynchus nitidus wardelli Mathews, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, Vol. XXVII., p. 99, July 
13th, 1911 : Cooktown, Queensland. 
Monarcha alecto nitida Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 324, 1912. 
Monarcha alecto wardelli Mathews, ib. 
Piezorhynchus alecto Campbell, Emu, Vol. XII., p. 20, 1912 (N.Q.). 
Monarcha alecto melvillensis Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 2, p. 42, April 2nd, 
1912 : Melville Island, Northern Territory. 
Piezorhynchus alecto tormenti Mathews, ib., pt. 4, p. 91, Sept. 18th, 1912 : Point Torment, 
North-west Australia. 
Monarcha alecto campbelli Mathews, ib., pt. 5, p. 126, Dec. 24th, 1912 : Cape York, 
Queensland. 
Piezorhynchus alecto nitidus Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 190, 1913. 
Piezorhynchus alecto tormenti Mathews, ib. 
Piezorhynchus alecto campbelli Mathews, ib. 
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