Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 533. 
Family SYLVIIDM. 
ACANTHIZA NANA. 
LITTLE TIT. 
(Plate 449, two top figures). 
Acanthiza ^ana Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 226, Feb. 
17, 1827 : New South Wales. 
Acanthiza nana Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 226, 1827 ; 
Gould, Birds of Austr., pt. xxm. (Vol. III., pi. 60), March 1, 1846 ; id., Handb. 
Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 371, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., 
p. 185, 1878 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. VII., p. 292, 1883 ; Ramsay, 
Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 9, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 24, 1899 ; Campbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 228, 1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. 
No. 1, Vol.- I., p. 266, 1904; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 74, 1908 ; Ingle, 
Emu, Vol. X., p. 123, 1910 (Vic.) ; Cleland, id., Vol. XI., p. 85, 1911 (Food) ; Cheney, 
id., Vol. XIV., p. 210, 1915 (Vic.) ; Howe, id., Vol. XVL, p. 173, 1916 (Review); 
H. L. White, id., Vol. XVIII., p. 122, 1918; Cleland, id., p. 280, 1919 (N.S.W.) ; 
S. A. White, id., Vol. XIX., p. 219, 1920 (Q.). 
Acanthiza nana mathewsi Hartert, Bull. Brit. Ornith. Club, Vol. XXV., p. 82, March 31, 
1910: Springvale, Victoria; Emu, Vol. X., p. 78, 1910; Mathews, Nov. Zool., 
Vol. XVIII., p. 347, 1912; id., List Birds Austr., p. 215, 1913; Belcher, Birds 
Geelong, p. 274, 1914. - 
Acanthiza nana nana Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 346, 1912 ; id., List Birds 
Austr., p. 215, 1913. \ 
Acanthiza pygmea Milligan, Emu, Vol. XII., pt. 3, p. 167, Jan. 1, 1913 : Mallee, Victoria ; 
Chandler, id., Vol. XIII., p. 40, 1913 ; H. L. White, id., Vol. XVI., p. 160, 1917. 
Acanthiza nana pygmea Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 215, 1913. 
Acanthiza nana dorothece Mathews, Emu, Vol. XIV., pt. I., p. 60, July 1, 1914 : Lithgow, 
New South Wales ; id.. Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., p. 98, Sept. 24, 1914. 
Acanthiza nana dawsoniana, H. L. White, Emu, Vol. XVIII., pt. 2, p. 122, Oct. 1918 : 
Dawson River, Central Queensland. 
Acanthiza nana clelandi Mathews, Bull. Brit. Ornith. Club, Vol. XL., p. 106, March 31, 
1920 : Bunya Mts., South Queensland. 
Acanthiza nana burtoni Mathews, ib., p. 121, April 30, 1920. New name for preceding. 
Not — 
A. lineata clelandi Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 349, 1912. 
Distribution. Eastern Australia from South Australia, Victoria through New South 
Wales to the Dawson River, Queensland. 
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