Order PASSERIFORMES . 
No. 581. 
Family ART AMID jE. 
AUSTRARTAMUS MELANOPS. 
BLACK-FACED WOOD-SWALLOW. 
(Plate 477.)* 
Artamus MELANOPS Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1865, p. 198, June 1st; Saint 
A’Becket’s Pool, Central Australia. 
Artamus cinereus Gould, Birds Austr., pt. vi. (Vol. II., pi. 29), Marcli 1st, 1842; 
[Not Artamus cinereus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., nouv. ed., Yol. XVII., p. 297, 1817.] 
id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 147, 1865; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 
1875, p. 584 ; Sharpe, Ornitli. Mscell. (Rowley), Vol. III., p. 195, 1878 ; Ramsay, 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 179, 1878 ; id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 3, 
1888 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XIII., p. 16, 1890 ; Hall, Key Birds 
Austr., p. 48, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 469, 1901 ; 
Hall, Emu, Vol. II., p. 58, 1902 (N.W.A.) ; Carter, ib., Vol. III., p. 94, 1903 (W.A.) ; 
Hall and Rogers, ib., Vol. VII., p. 140, 1908 (N.W.A.) ; Mathews, Handl. Birds 
Austral., p. 81, 1908; id., Emu, Vol. IX., p. 12, 1909 (N.W.A.); id., ib., p. 61; 
Whitlock, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 206, 1910 (N.W.A.) ; Hill, ib., Vol. X., p. 280, 1911 
(N.W.A.) ; Campbell, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 67, 1913 (Eggs) ; Orton and Sandland, 
ib., p. 79 (W.A.) ; H. L. White, ib., Vol. XVI., p. 225, 1917 (N.T.) ; Campbell, ib., 
Vol. XVIII., p. 256, 1919 ; Ashby, ib., Vol. XX., p. 135, 1921 (W.A.) ; Alexander, 
ib., p. 166 (W.A.) ; Whitlock, ib., p. 184 (W.A.). 
Artamus albiventris Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1847, p. 31, April 27th : Darling 
[Not Ocypterus albiventer Lesson, Traite d’Ornibh, p. 370, 1830.] 
Downs, New South Wales, i.e., Queensland ; Gould, Birds Austr., pi. 28 (Vol. 
II., pi. 30), Sept. 1st, 1847 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 149, 1865 ; 
Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1868, p. 383; Masters, Proc. Linn. Soc. 
N.S.W., p. 48, 1876 ; Castelnau and Ramsay, ib., Vol. I., p. 380, 1877 ; Sharpe, 
Omith. Miscell. (Rowley), Vol. III., p. 196, 1878; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 
Vol. II., p. 179, 1878 ; id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 3, 1888 ; North, Austr. 
Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. II., p. 262, 1909. 
Artamus melanoys Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1865, p. 198, June 1st: Saint A’Becket’s 
Pool, Central Australia; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 149 (Dec.), 1865; id., 
Birds Austr. Suppl., pi 7, pt. 5, August 1st, 1869 ; Sharpe, Ornith. Miscell. (Rowley), 
* The Plate is lettered A. cinereus and A. tregellasi. 
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