Order PASSERIFORMES . 
No. 568. 
Family SYLVIID/F. 
DIAPHORILLAS TEXTILIS. 
GRASS-WREN. 
(Plates 467 & 468, bottom figures.) 
Maluku'S textilis Dumont, Diet. Sci. Nat. (Levrault), Vol. XXX., p. 117, May 29th, 1824 : 
based on Quoy and Gaimard, pi. 23, f.2 : Shark’s Bay, West Australia=Peron 
Peninsula. 
M alums textilis Dumont, Diet. Sci. Nat. (Levrault), Vol. XXX., p. 117, May 29th, 1824: 
Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. de rUranie and Physicienne, Zool., p. 107, pi. 23, f. 2, 
Sept. 18th, 1824 : Shark’s Bay, West Australia. 
Amytis textilis Lesson, Traite d’Orn., p. 454, 1831 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 
Vol. It., p. 184, 1878; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. VII., p. 107, 1883; 
Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 8, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 23, 1899 ; 
Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 221, 1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. 
Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. I., p. 248, 1904. 
Amytis macrourus Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xxvi. (Vol. 3, pi. 30), March 1st, 1847 : Interior 
of W.A.=Wongan Hills ; id, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), p. 2, 1847, March 29th; 
id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 338, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 
Vol. II., p. 184, 1878; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. VII., p. 108, 1883; 
Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 8, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 23, 1899; 
Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 223, 1901 ; Gibson, Emu, Vol. IX., 
p. 73, 1909 ; Carter, ib., p. 163, 1910 ; North, Viet. Naturalist, Vol. XXVI., p. 158, 
1910 ; id., Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. IV., pt. 5, p. 425, 1914. 
Diaphorillas textilis Oberholser, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1899, p. 212. 
Amytis gigantura Milligan, Victorian Naturalist, Vol. XVIII., p. 28, June 6th, 1901 : Mount 
Magnet, West Australia ; Carter, Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 104, 1908 ; Crossman, ib., 
Vol. IX., p. 88, 1909. 
Amytis megalura Sharpe, Zool. Rec. (1901), Aves, p. 68. 1902 : emendation of Milligan’s 
name only. 
Amytornis textilis Sharpe, Ilandl. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IV., p. 246, 1903; Mathews, 
Hand! Birds Austral., p. 80, 1908; Campbell, Emu, Vol. XVIII., p. 262, 1919; 
H. L. White, ib., Vol. XX., p. 190, pi. xx., 1921. 
Amytis varia Carter, Victorian Naturalist, Vol. XXV., p. 86, Sept. 10th, 1908 : Broome 
Hill, South-west Australia ; id.. Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 104, 1908. 
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