Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 496. 
Family CAMPOPHAGIDM. 
LALAGE TRICOLOR. 
CATERPILLAR-EATER. 
(Plate 418.) 
Ceblepyris tricolor Swainson, Zool. Joum., Vol. I., p. 467, Jan. 1825: “Australia” 
= New South Wales. 
Ceblepyris tricolor Swainson, Zool. Journ., Vol. I., p. 467, Jan. 1825. 
Ceblepyris humeralis Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., App., p. 2, April 1838 : New 
South Wales ; id., Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1837, p. 143, Dec. 1838. 
Campephaga humeralis Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xxxiv. (Vol. II., pi. 63), Dec. 1st, 1848; 
id,, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 204, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W.! 
Vol. II., p. 181, 1878; S. A. White, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 127, 1914 (S.A.); 
Macgillivray, ib., p. 170 (N.Q.) ; Barnard, ib., Vol. XIV., p. 44, 1914 (N.T.) ; 
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. 201 (N.Q.). 
Lalage humeralis Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 355, 1851 ; Cabanis, Mus. Hein., 
Vol. I., p. 60, 1851. 
Lalage tricolor Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IV., p. 92, 1879; Ramsay, Tab. List 
Austr. Birds, p. 5, 1888 ; Hah, Key Birds Austr., p. 12, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and 
Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 103, 1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. l,pt. 2, 
p. 117, 1902 ; Hah, Emu, Vol. II., p. 51, 1902 (N.W.A.) ; Carter, ib., Vol. III.! 
p. 36, 1903 (M.-W.A.) ; Berney, ib., Vol. V., p. 20, 1905 (N.Q.) ; Mathews, Handl. 
Birds Austral., p. 68, 1908 ; Whitlock, Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 179, 1909 (M.-W.A.) ; 
Crossman, ib., Vol. IX., p. 87, 1909 (S.W.A.) ; Whitlock, ib., p. 195, 1910 (M.-W.A.) ; 
Broadbent, ib., Vol. X., p. 236, 1910 (N.Q.) ; Chisholm, ib., p. 294, 1911 (Vic.) ; 
Barnard, ib., Vol. XI., p. 26, 1911 (N.Q.) ; Littler, ib., Vol. XII., p. 278, 1913 (Tas.)! 
Lalage tricolor tricolor Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 328, 1912 ; id.. List Birds 
Austr., p. 195, 1913 ; Belcher, Birds Geelong, p. 247, 1914. 
Lalage tricolor indistincta Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 328, Jan. 31st, 1912 : 
Wyndham, North-west Australia ; id., Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 58, 1912 ; id.. 
List Birds Austr., p. 195, 1913; id., Ibis, 1914, p. 123; id., South Austr. Omith., 
Vol. III., pt. 5, p. 139, 1918 ; Soderberg, Kungl. Svenska Vet. Handl., Band LII., 
No. 17, p. 88, 1918. 
Karua leucomela mayi Ashby, South Austr. Omith., Vol. I., pt. 4, p. 27, Oct. 1914 : Pine 
Creek, Northern Territory ; id., ib., Vol. II., pt. 3, p. 72, 1915. 
Distribution. Australia generally. Not Tasmania, save as an accidental visitor. 
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