Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 498. 
Family SPHECOTHERIDJS. 
SPHECOTHERES VIEILLOTI. 
FIG BIRD. 
(Plate 419.) 
Sphecotheres vieilloti Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 215, 
Eeb. 17, 1827 : Keppel Bay, Queensland. 
* Sphecotheres vieilloti Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 215, 
1827. 
Sphecotheres viridis (not Vieillot Analyse, p. 68, 1816 or Gal. d’Oiseaux, pi. 147), Vigors 
and Horsfield, ib. 
Sphecotheres virescens Jardine and Selby, Illus, Omith., Vol. II., pi. 79, July 1829 : New 
South Wales. 
Sphecothera grisea Lesson, Traite d’Om., livr. 5 e , p. 351, (Dec.) 1830: “ Aux Terre 
Australes ” (part only). 
Lanius asturinus Lesson, ib. 
Sphecotheres canicollis Swainson, Anim. in Menag., p. 320, Dec. 31st, 1837 : “Australia ” = 
New South Wales. 
Sphecotheres maxillaris Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. I., p. 231, 1845 (not Latham) ; Gould, 
Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 467, 1865 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. III., 
p. 224, 1877 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 188, 1878; id., Tab. 
List Austr. Birds, p. 11, 1888; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 10, 1899; Campbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 82, 1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. 
No. 1, Vol. I., p. 81, 1902 ; Cornwall, Emu, Vol. VII., p. 173, 1908 (N.Q.) ; Mathews, 
Hand!. Birds Austral., p. 104, 1908. 
Sphecotheres australis Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xxx. (Vol. IV., pi. 15), March 1st, 1848: 
Queensland; Higgles, Ornith. Austr., pt. n., 1866. 
Oriolus maxillaris Schlegel, Mus. de Pays-Bas, Vol. I., Coraces, p. 115, 1867. 
Sphecotheres maxillaris maxillaris Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 436, 1912 ; id., List 
Birds Austr., p. 306, 1913. 
Sphecotheres maxillaris vieilloti, Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 436, 1912 ; id.. List 
Birds Austr., p. 306, 1913 ; id., South Austr. Ornith., Vol. II., p. 60, 1915. 
Sphecotheres maxillaris boweri, Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. III., pt. 5, p. 63, April 7th, 
1916 : Cairns, North Queensland. 
Not Turdus maxillaris Latham, Suppl. Index Ornith., p. xLin., 1801 : New South Wales. 
Cf. Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. III., pt. 6, p. 139, pi. vi., 1918. 
* Also spelt Sphecothera . 
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