Order PASSERIFORMES. 
Family SPHEGOTHERIDM. 
No. 499. 
SPHECOTHERES FLAVIVENTRIS. 
YELLOW-BELLIED FIG BIRD. 
(Plate 420.) 
Sphecotheres flaviventris Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.). 1849, p. Ill, 1850 (Jan.- 
June) : Cape York, Queensland. 
Sphecotheres flaviventris Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1849, p. Ill, 1850 ; id., Birds 
Austr. , Suppl., pi. 37 (pt. i.), March 15th, 1851 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., 
p. 468, 1865 ; Biggies, Omith. Austr., pt. n., 1866 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 
Vol. III., p. 225, 1877; Masters, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Yol. I., p. 54, 1877 '; 
Ramsay, ib., Yol. 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. 84, 1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. I., p. 83, 1902 ; Le Souef, 
Emu, Vol. II., p. 87, 1902 (N.T.) ; Campbell, ib., Vol. VII., p. 196, 1908 (?N.S.W.); 
Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 104, 1908 ; Barnard, Emu, Vol. XI., p. 29, 1911 
(N.Q.) ; Macgillivray, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 183, 1914 (N.Q.) ; Campbell and Barnard, 
ib., Vol. XVII., p. 35, 1917 (N.Q.) ; Macgillivray, ib., p. 208, 1918 (N.Q.). 
Sphecotheres -flaviventris flaviventris Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 436, 1912 ; id., 
List Birds Austr., p. 307, 1913. 
Sphecotheres flaviventris audoni Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 436, Jan. 31st, 1912 : 
Cairns, North Queensland; id., South Austr. Omith., Vol. II., p. 61, 1915. 
Sphecotheres flaviventris ashbyi Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 436, Jan. 31st, 1912 : 
Alligator River, Northern Territory ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 307, 1913 ; id., Ibis, 
1914, p. 131. 
Distribution. North Queensland : Northern Territory. Extra-limital. 
Adult male. Crown of head, upper hind-neck, and sides of face black ; lower hind-neck, 
entire back and upper tail-coverts, scapulars, upper wing-coverts and outer webs 
of secondary-quills yellowish-green ; bastard- wing and primary-coverts black fringed 
with grey or yellowish-green ; flight-quills blackish, paler on the margins of the 
inner webs and grey on the outer edges of the primaries ; tail blackish, the central 
feathers fringed with yellowish-green, more broadly at the tips, the outer feathers 
paler, inclining to smoke-brown and becoming white, slightly shaded with smoke- 
brown on the apical portion, the outer web of the outermost feather on each side white 
along its entire length ; cheeks, throat, breast, upper-abdomen, and lower flanks 
bright yellow ; sides of breast and sides of body, axillaries and under wing-coverts 
similar to the back but rather paler ; middle of lower-abdomen, vent, and under 
tail-coverts white ; under-surface of flight-quills grey, or grevish-brown ; lower 
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