Order PASSERIFORMES 
Family TURD1DM. 
No. 522. 
AUREPTHIANURA AURIFRONS. 
ORANGE-FRONTED CHAT. 
(Plate 440, right hand figures.) 
Epthianura aurifrons Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., App., p. 4, April 1st, 1838 : 
Interior New South Wales. 
Epthianura aurifrons Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., App., p. 4, April 1838 ; id., 
Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1837, p. 148, Dec. 1838 ; id.. Birds Austr., pt. vn. (Vol. III., 
pi. 65), June 1st, 1842 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 380, 1865 ; Ramsay, 
Proc. Linn. Soc., N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 186, 1878; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 
Vol. VII., p. 668, 1883 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 9, 1888 ; Hall, Key 
Birds Austr., p. 30, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 285, 
1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., p. 349, 1904; Mathews, Handl. 
Birds Austral., p. 73, 1908; Whitlock, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 197, 1910 (W.A.); 
Macgillivray, id., Vol. X., p. 31, 1910 (N.S.W.) ; S. A. White, id., Vol. XIII., p. 26, 
1910 (S.A.) ; Chandler, ib., p. 40 (Vic.) ; Witmer Stone, Austral Ay. Rec., Vol. I., 
pts. 6-7, p. 162, 1913; Barrett, Emu, Vol. XVI., p. 17, 1916 (N.S.W.) ; Ashby, 
ib., p. 233, 1917 (S.A.). 
Acanthiza ( Geobasileus ) flaviventris Ashby, Emu, Vol. IX., pt. 3, p. 137, Jan. 1st, 1910 : 
Lake Erome, South Australia. 
Epthianura aurifrons aurifrons Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 341, Jan. 31st, 1912. 
Epthianura aurifrons flavescens Mathews, ib., Lake Way, West Australia. 
Epthianura aurifrons obsoleta Mathews, ib. : Alexandra, Northern Territory. 
Acanthiza flaviventris Mathews, ib., p. 352, 1912. 
Aurepthianura aurifrons Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 208, 1913 ; S. A. White, Emu, 
Vol. XVIII., p. 22, 1918 ; id., ib., p. 197, 1919. 
Aurepthianura aurifrons aurifrons Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 208, 1913. 
Aurepthianura aurifrons flavescens Mathews, ib. ; Carter, Ibis, 1921, p. 57. 
Aurepthianura aurifrons obsoleta Mathews, ib. 
Geobasileus flaviventris Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 219, 1913. 
Geobasileus ashbyi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. III., pt. 3, p. 61, April 7th, 1916 : new 
name for preceding only. 
Keartlandia flaviventris Mathews, ib., pt. 4, p. 78, July 21st, 1917. 
Distribution. Interior of Australia generally. 
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