LIST OF BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
CCCXXXIV. Genus LALAGE. 
Lalage Boie Isis, 1826, Heft X., col. 973 (October). Type (by monotypy) : Turdus orientalis Gmelin = Turdus 
niger Forster. 
Erucivora Swainson, Fauna Bor. Amer. Birds, p. 483, " 1831 ”= February 1832. Type (by monotypy) : T. 
orientalis Gmelin = T. niger Forster. 
407. LALAGE TRICOLOR. CATERPILLAR-EATER. 
Gould, Vol. II., pi. 63 (pt. xxxiv.), Dec. 1st, 1348. Mathews, Vol. IX., pt. 3, pi. 418, June 
20th, 1921. 
Ceblepyris tricolor Swainson, Zool. Joum., Vol. I., pt. iv„ p. 467, Jan. 1825 : " Australia " = New South Wales 
(Sydney). 
Ceblepyris humeralis Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., App., p. 2, April 1st, 1838 = New South Wales (Sydney). 
Lalage tricolor indistincta Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 328, Jan. 31st, 1912 : Wyndham, North-west 
Australia. 
Kama leucomela mayi Ashby, South Austr. Ornith., Vol. I., pt. 4, p. 27, Oct. 1st, 1914 : Pine Creek, Northern 
Territory. 
Distribution. Australia. Not Tasmania (accidental). 
CCCXXXV. Genus KARUA. 
Kama Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., pts. 2-3, p. 59, Oct. 23rd, 1913. Type (by original designation) : 
Campephaga leucomela Vigors and Horsfield. 
408. KARUA LEUCOMELA. PIED CATERPILLAR-EATER. 
Gould, Vol. II., pi. 61 (pt. xxxi.), June 1st, 1848; Vol. II., pi. 62 (pt. xxxiv.), Dec. 1st, 1848. 
Mathews, Vol. IX., pt. 3, pi. 418, June 20th, 1921. 
Campephaga leucomela Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 215, Feb. 17th, 1827: 
Broad Sound, Queensland. 
Campephaga ( rufiventris ) Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. I., p. 283, June 1846 : based on Voy. Pole Sud., pi. 11 : Raffles 
Bay, Northern Territory. 
Lalage leucomela yorlci Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 329, Jan. 31st, 1912 : Cape York, North Queensland. 
Lalage leucomela gouldi Mathews, ib. : (Alligator River) Northern Territory. 
Distribution. Tropical Northern Australia and down the east coast into New South Wales. 
Family SPHECOTHERIDAJ 
CCCXXXVI. Genus SPHECOTHERES . 
Spheeotheres Vieillot, Analyse nouv. Ornith., p. 42, April 14th, 1816. Type (by monotypy) : 5. viridis Vieillot. 
Picnoramphus Rosenberg, Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind., Vol. XXIX., p. 143, 1866. Type (by monotypy) : P. cucullatus 
Rosenberg. 
409. SPHECOTHERES VIEILLOTI. FIG-BIRD. 
Gould, Vol. IV., pi. 15 (pt. xxx.), March 1st, 1848. Mathews, Vol. IX., pt. 4, pi. 419, 
Oct. 19th, 1921. 
Spheeotheres vieilloti Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 215, Feb. 17th, 1827 : Keppel 
Bay, Queensland. 
Spheeotheres virescens Jardine and Selby, Illus. Ornith., Vol. II., pi. 79, July 1829 : New South Wales. 
Not Spheeotheres virescens Vieillot, Gal. d’Oiseaux, pi. 147, 1823. 
Sphecothera grisea Lesson, Traite d’Orn., livr. 5, p. 351 (Dec.), 1830 : “ Aux Terre Australes ” (part only). 
Lanius asturinus Lesson, ib. 
Spheeotheres canicollis Swainson, Anim. in Menag., p. 320, Dec. 31st, 1837 : " Australia ” = New South Wales. 
Spheeotheres maxillaris Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. I., p. 231, 1845, and recent authors, but not Turdus maxillaris 
Latham, Index Ornith., Suppl., p. xliii., 1801. Cf. Austral Av. Rec., Vol. III., pt. 6, p. 139, pi. 6, 1918. 
Spheeotheres australis Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xxx. (Vol. IV., pi. 15), March 1st, 1848 : Queensland. 
Spheeotheres maxillaris boweri Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. III., pt. 5, p. 63, April 7th, 1916 : Cairns, North 
Queensland. 
Distribution. Eastern Australia from Cairns, North Queensland, to New South Wales. 
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