Order PASSERIFORMES. Family Cl NCLO SOM A TID/E 
No. 512. 
POMATOSTOMUS TEIV1PORALIS. 
BABBLER. 
(Plate 432.) 
Pomatorhinus temporalis Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., 
p. 330, Feb. 17, 1827 : Shoalwater Bay, Queensland. 
Pomatorhinus temporalis Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 330, 
1827; Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xvi. (Vol. IV., pi. 20), Sept. 1st, 1844; Sharpe, 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. VII., p. 418, 1883 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 29, 1899 ; 
Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 270, 1901 ; Hill, Emu, Vol. VI., 
p. 179, 1907 (Vic.) ; Batey, ib., Vol. VII., p. 7, 1907 (Vic.) ; Chisholm, ib., Vol. VIII., 
p. 36, 1908 (Vic.) ; Macgillivray, ib., Vol. XVII., p. 201, 1918 (N.Q..). 
Pomatorhinus trivirgatus Temminck and Laugier, Plan. Color d’Ois, 75e livr., Vol. IV., 
pi. 443, Jan. 5, 1828 : Blue Mountains, New South Wales. 
Pomatorhinus rubeculus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1839, p. 144, March 1840 : N.W. 
Coast Australia=Port Essington, Northern Territory; id., Birds Austr., pt. xxx., 
(Vol. IV., pi. 21), March 1st, 1848 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. VII., p. 421, 
1883 ; Hah, Key Birds Austr., p. 29, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, 
Vol. I., p. 274, 1901 ; Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVI., p. 225, 1905 (N.W.A.) ; 
Mathews, Hand! Birds Austral., p. 71, 1908 ; Whitlock, Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 181, 
1908 (W.A.) ; Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1909, p. 682 ; Barnard, ib., Vol. XI., p. 26, 1911 
(N.Q.) ; Witmer Stone, Austral Av. Bee., Vol. I., p. 162, 1913 ; H. L. White, Emu, 
Vol. XVI., p. 224, 1917 (N.T.) 
Pomatostomus temporalis Cabanis, Mus. Hein, Vol. I., p. 83, 1851 ; Gould, Handb. Birds 
Austr., Vol. I., p. 479, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 188, 
1878 ; id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 12, 1888 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, 
Vol. I., p. 358, 1904. 
Pomatostomus rubeculus Cabanis, Mus. Hein, Vol. I., p. 83, note, 1851 ; Gould, Handb. 
Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 481, 1865; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., 
p. 188, 1878 ; id., ib., 2nd Ser., Vol. I., p. 1,088, 1887 ; id., Tab; List Austr. Birds, 
p. 12, 1888 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. I., p. 361, 1904. 
Pomatorhinus frivolus ( nec Latham) Sharpe, Hist. Coll. Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist., Vol. II., 
p. 137, 1906 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 70, 1908 ; Cleland, Emu, Vol. XI., 
p. 85, 1911 (Ford). 
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