Order PASSERIFORMES. 
Family SYLVIID M. 
No. 543. 
NEOSERICORNIS LATHAMI. 
YELLOW-THROATED SCRUB WREN. 
(Plate 453.) 
Muscicapa lathami Stephens in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., Vol. X., p. 336, Sept. 1817 : New 
South Wales : new name for Muscicapce barbata Latham 1801= Sydney. 
Muscicapa barbata Latham, Suppl. Index Ornith., p. Li., after May 30th, 1801 : New South 
Wales, based on Watling Drawing, No. 180. 
Not of Latham, Index Ornith., Yol. II., p. 488, 1790. 
Muscicapa lathami Stephens in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., Vol. X., p. 336, 1817. 
Sericornis citreogularis* Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv. (pi. 58, f. 4), April 1st, 1838 : 
New South Wales ; id., Proe. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1837 p. 133, Dec. 1838 ; id., Birds 
Austr., pt. xiv. (Vol. III., pi. 46), March 1, 1844 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., 
p. 354, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1875, p. 590 ; id., Proc. Linn. Soc. 
N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 185, 1878 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. VII., p. 302, 
1883 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 9, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 26, 
1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 243, 1901 ; Broadbent, 
Ibis, 1902, p. 381 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., p. 295, 1904 ; Sassi, 
Joum fur Orn., 1909, p. 371, (N.Q.) ; A. G. Campbell, EmujVol. X., p. 37, 1910 ; 
Mellor, ib., p. 209 ; Broadbent, ib., p. 237 ; Campbell, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 67, 1913 ; 
id., and Barnard, ib., Vol. XVII., p. 27, 1917. 
Sericornis barbata Sharpe, Hist. Coll. Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist., Vol. II., p. 140, 1906. 
Sericornis barbara (errore) Mathews,. Handl. Birds Austral., p. 76, 1908. 
Sericornis lathami lathami Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 353, 1912. 
Sericornis lathami intermedia Mathews, ib., p. 354, Jan. 31, 1912 : Biackall Ranges, 
Queensland ; id., Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 59, 1912. 
Sericornis lathami cairnsi Mathews, ib : Cairns, Queensland. 
Sericornis lathami cairnsensis Mathews, ib., error only. 
Neosericornis lathami lathami Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 219, 1913. 
Neosericornis lathami intermedins Mathews, ib. 
Neosericornis lathami cairnsi Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. Queensland, New South Wales * ? Victoria. 
* Also spelt citreigularis. 
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