Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 495. 
Family CA M POP HA 01 DAS. 
METAGRAUCALUS TENUIROSTRIS. 
CATERPILLAR-CATCHER. 
(Plate 417.) 
Graucaltjs tenuirostris Jardine, Edinb. Joum. Nat. Geogr. Sci. (n.s.), Vol. III., p. 211, 
April 1831 : “ New Holland = New South Wales. 
Graucalus tenuirostris Jardine, Edinb. Joum. Nat. Geogr. Science (n.s.) Vol III p 211 
1831. 
Ceblepyris jardinii Riippell, Mus. Senckenb., Vol. III., p. 30, 1839 : new name for G. 
tenuirostris Jardine. 
Campephaga jardinii Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xxxm. (Vol. II., pi. 60), Dec. 1st, 1848; 
Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Ay., Vol. I., p. 353, 1851 ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr." 
Vol. I., p. 200, 1865; Ramsay, Ibis, 1865, p. 84; id., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 
Vol. II., p. 181, 1878. 
Campephaga tenuirostris Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. I., p. 283, 1848. 
Graucalus jardinei Hartlaub, Joum. fiir Orn., 1864, p. 441. 
Edoliisoma jardinei Salvadori and D’Albertis, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, Vol. VII., p. 927, 
1875, (?) 1876 ; Macgillivray, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 170, 1914 (N.Q.) ; H. L. White, 
ib., Vol. XVI., p. 224, 1917 (N.T.) ; Campbell and Barnard, ib., Vol. XVII., p. 26, 
1917 (N.Q.) ; Macgillivray, ib., p. 200, 1917 (N.Q.) ; Campbell, ib., Vol. XX., p. 61, 
1920 (N.Q.) 
Edoliisoma tenuirostre Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IV., p. 55, 1879; Ramsay, Tab- 
List Austr. Birds, p. 5, 1888; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 12, 1899; Campbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 100, 1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat.’ 
No. 1, pt. 2, p. 113, 1902 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 68, 1908 ; Broadbent, 
Emu, Vol. X., p. 235, 1910 (N.Q.) ; Hill, ib., p. 277, 1911 (N.W.A.). 
Coracina tenuirostris tenuirostris Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 328, 1912. 
Coracina tenuirostris obscura Mathews, ib., Jan. 31st, 1912 : Cairns, Queensland. 
Coracina tenuirostris melvillensis Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 2, p. 43, April; 
2nd, 1912 : Melville Island, Northern Territory. 
Metagraucalus tenuirostris tenuirostris Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 195, 1913. 
Metagraucalus tenuirostris obscurus Mathews, ib. 
Metagraucalus tenuirostris melvillensis Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Northern Territory and North- 
west Australia. 
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