Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 497. 
Family CAMPOPHAGIDM. 
KARUA LEUCOMELA. 
PIED CATERPILLAR-EATER. 
(Plate 418.) 
Campephaga leucomela Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., 
p. 215, Feb. 17, 1827 : Broad Sound, Queensland. 
Campephaga leucomela Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 215, 
1827 ; Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xxxiv. (Vol. II., pi. 62), Dec. 1st, 1848 ; id., Handb. 
Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 203, 1865; Ramsay, Ibis, 1865, p. 84; id., Proc. Linn. 
Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 181, 1878. 
Campephaga Jcaru Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xxxi. (Vol. II., pi. 61), June 1st, 1848; id., 
Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 202, 1865; Ramsay, Ibis, 1865, p. 84; Masters, 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. I., p. 48, 1875. 
Campephaga ( rufiventris ) Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. I., p. 283, June 1846, based on Voy. 
Pole Sud., pi. 11: Raffles Bay, Northern Territory; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. 
N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 181, 1878. 
Lalage “ leucomela ” Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 355, 1851. 
Lalage karu (partim) Bonaparte, ib. ; Ramsay, Proc. linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 181, 1878. 
Lalage leucomelcena Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IV., p. 106, 1879; Ramsay, Tab. 
List Austr. Birds, p. 5, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 13, 1899 ; Campbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 104, 1901 ; Le Sougf, Emu, Vol. II., p. 143, 
1903 (N.T.) ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 68, 1908; Broadbent, Emu, 
Vol. X., p. 236, 1910 (N.Q.). ; Hill, ib., p. 278, 1911 (N.W.A.) ; Barnard, ib., Vol. 
XI., p. 26, 1911 (N.Q.). 
Lalage karu leucomela Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p. 224, 1905. 
Lualage leucomela leucomela Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 328, 1912. 
Lalage leucomela yorki Mathews, ib., p. 329, Jan. 31st, 1912 : Cape York, North Queensland. 
Lalage leucomela gouldi Mathews, ib. : (Alligator River) Northern Territory. 
Karua leucomela leucomela Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 196, 1913; id., South Austr. 
Ornith., Vol. II., pt. 3, p. 57, 1915. 
Karua leucomela yorki Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 196, 1913. 
Karua leucomela rufiventris, Mathews, ib. ; id., Ibis, 1914, p. 123. 
Campephaga leucomela 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, 
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