Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 527. 
Family SYLVIIDM. 
POODYTES GRAMINEUS. 
GRASS BIRD. 
(Plate 444.) 
Sphengeacus GRAMINEUS Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1845, p. 19, April : Tasmania. 
Sphenoeacus gramineus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1S45, p. 19; id., Birds Austr., 
pt. xix. (Vol. III., pi. 36), June 1st, 1845 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Yol. I., p. 400, 
1865; Diggles, Ornith. Austr., pt. xrv., 1867; Ramsay Proc., Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 
Vol. II., p. 186, 1878 ; id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 10, 1888; Witmer Stone, 
Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pts. 6-7, p. 163, 1913. 
Megalurus gramineus Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. I., p. 169, 1848 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus., Vol. VII., p. 125, 1883 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 24, 1899 ; Campbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 224, 1901 ; A. G. Campbell, Emu, Vol. II., 
p. 100, 1902 (Vic.) ; Hill, ib., p. 164, 1903 (Vic.) ; A. G. Campbell, ib., p. 207 
(King Islands) ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., p. 256, 1904 ; A. G. 
Campbell, Emu, Vol. V., p. 141, 1906 (Kang. Island) ; Batey, ib. , Vol. VII., p. 6, 1907 
(Vic.); Hove, ib., p. 158, 1908 (Tas.); Mathews, Hand! Birds Austral., p. 74, 1908; 
Hove, Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 70, 1908 (Vic.) ; Ogilvie Grant, Ibis, 1909, p. 680 (W.A.) ; 
Macgillivray, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 171, 1914 (N.Q.) ; S. A. White, ib., Vol. XIV., 
p. 141, 1915 (Vic.) ; Lawrence and Littlejohns, ib., p. 220, pi. xxiv., 1915 (Vic.). 
Poodytes gramineus Cabanis, Mus. Hein., Vol. I., p. 42, 1851. 
Megalurus striatus Milligan, Emu, Vol. II., pt. 4, p. 201, April 1st, 1903 : Lake Yanchep, 
West Australia. 
[Not Megalurus ? striatus Jerdon, Madras Journ. Lit. Science, No. 30, p. 169, April, 1S44.] 
Hall, Key Birds Austr., 2nd ed., p. Ill, 1906; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., 
p. 74, 1908 ; Whitlock, Emu, Vol. XI., p. 244, 1912 (S.W.A.) ; H. L. White, ib. t 
p. 249 ; id., ib., Vol. XV., p. 62, 1915. 
Megalurus gramineus gramineus Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 344, Jan. 31, 1912. 
Megalurus gramineus goulburni Mathews, ib. : Goulbum, New South Wales. 
Megalurus gramineus wilsoni Mathews, ib. : (Westernport) Victoria. 
Megalurus gramineus dubius Mathews, ib. : Mannam, South Australia. 
Megalurus gramineus striatus Mathews, ib. 
Megalurus gramineus thomasi Mathews, ib. : Lake Muir, West Australia. 
Megalurus gramineus halmaturinus Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 2, p. 43, Apl. 2, 
1912 : Kangaroo Island, South Australia. 
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