Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 539. 
Family SYLVIIDM. 
GEOBASILEUS CHRYSORRHOUS. 
YELLOW-RUMPED TIT. 
(Plate 452.) 
Saxicola chrysorrhoa Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. de l’Astrol. Zool., Vol. I., p. 198, pi. 10, 
f. 2 (pref. June 29) 1830 ; New South Wales. 
Saxicola chrysorrhoa Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. de FAstrol. Zool., Vol. I., p. 198, pi. 10, 
f. 2, 1830. 
Acanthiza chrysorrhoa Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., pi. 60, 1838 ; id.. Birds Austr., 
pt. xvi. (Vol. III., pi. 63), Sept. 1st, 1844; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. VII., p. 
298, 1883; Legge, Papers Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1886, p. 240, 1887; Hah, Key Birds 
Austr., p. 25, 1899; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 238, 1901 ; 
A. G. Campbell, Emu, Vol. II., p. 13, 1902 (Vic.) ; Milligan, ib., p. 72 (W.A.) ; 
M’Clymont, ib., p. 98 (Tas.); Littler, ib., p. 171, 1903 (Tas.); Milligan, ib., 
Vol. III., p. 17, 1903 (W.A.) ; Littler, id., p. 214, 1904 (Tas.); A. G. Campbell, 
id., Vol. IV., p. 120, 1905 (Tas.); Berney, ib., Vol. V., p. 73, 1905 (N.Q.); Batey, 
ib., Vol. VII., p. 7, 1907 (Vic.); Legge, ib., p. 149 (Tas.); Mathews, Hand! Birds 
Austr., p. 75, 1908 ; Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 39, 1910 ; Hall, Emu, Vol IX., 
p. 128, 1910 (S.A.) ; Fletcher, ib., p. 252 (Tas.); Cleland, ib., Vol. XI., p. 86, 
1911 (Food) ; S. A. White, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 27, 1913 (S.A.) ; Macgillivray, ib., 
p. 171, 1914 (N.Q.) ; S. A. White, ib., Vol. XIV., p. 141, 1915 (Vic.) ; Cheney, 
ib., p. 210, (Vic.); Howe, Emu, Vol. XVI., p. 170, 1917 (Review); Lord, id., 
Vol. XIX., p. 105, 1919 (Tas.); Alexander, id., Vol. XX., p. 166, 1921 (W.A.); 
S. A. White, South Austr. Orn., Vol. VI., pt. 5, p. 99, 1922. 
Geobasileus chrysorrhous Cabanis, Mus. Hein, Vol. I., p. 32, 1851 ; Gould, Handb. Birds 
Austr., Vol. I., p. 374, 1865; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1875, p. 590; id., 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 186, 1878 ; id.. Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 9, 
1888 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., p. 282, 1904 ; Ashby, Emu, 
Vol. XVI., p. 234, 1917 (S.A.) ; S. A. White, ib., Vol. XVIII., p. 22, 1918 (S.A.); 
id., ib., Vol. XX., p. 127, 1921 (W.A.) ; Ashby, ib., p. 134 (W.A.) . 
Acanthiza squamata De Vis, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensl., Vol. VI., pt. v., p. 248, 1889 [1890] : 
Herberton, Queensland; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 25, 1899; Campbell, Nests 
and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 237, 1901 ; Mathews, Hand! Birds Austral., 
p. 75, 1908 ; Jackson, Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 261, 284, 1909. 
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