Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 583. 
Family ARTAMIDAE. 
MICRARTAMUS MINOR. 
LITTLE WOOD-SWALLOW. 
(Plate 477.) 
Artamus minor Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., nouy. ed., Vol. XVII., p. 298, Dec. 
27th, 1817 : New South Wales. 
Artamus minor Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., nouv. ed., Vol. XVIII., p. 298, 1817 ; 
Gould, Birds Austr., p. vi. (Vol. II., pi. 28), March 1st, 1842 ; id. , Handb. Birds 
Austr., Vol. I., p. 146, 1865 : Ramsay, Ibis, 1866, p. 327 ; id., Proc. Zool. Soc. (Bond.), 
1875, p. 584 ; Sharpe, Ornith. Miscell. (Rowley), Vol. III., p. 201, 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. 20, 1890 ; Hall, Key Birds 
Austr., p. 48, 1899 : Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 474, 1901 ; 
Hall, Emu, Vol. II., p. 59, 1902 (N.W.A.) ; Le Souef, ib., p. 149, 1903 (N.T.) ; 
Carter, ib., Vol. III., p. 94 (N.W.A.) ; Berney, ib., Vol. V., p. 78, 1905 (N.Q.) ; 
Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 81, 1908 ; Whitlock, Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 186, 
1909 (W.A.) ; Mathews, ib., Vol. IX., pp. 68, 240, 1909 (N.W.A.) ; North, Austr. 
Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. II., p. 263, 1909; Broadbent, Emu, Vol. X., p. 235, 
1910 (N.Q.) ; Hill, ib., p. 280, 1911 (N.W.A.) ; MacgiUivray, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 173, 
1914 (N.Q.) ; Barnard, ib., p. 212 (N.T.) ; id., ib., Vol. XIV., p. 46, 1914 (N.T.) ; 
H. L. White, ib., Vol. XVI., p. 225/ 1917 (N.T.) ; Campbell and Barnard, Emu, 
Vol. XVII., p. 28, 1917 (N.Q.) ; MacgiUivray, ib., p. 202, 1918 (N.Q.) ; Whitlock, 
ib., Vol. XX., p. 184, 1921 (W.A.). 
Ocypterus fuscatus Valenciennes, Mem. Mus. d’Hist. Nat. (Paris), Vol. VI., p. 24, before 
Aug., 1820 : New South Wales. 
Leptopteryx minor Wagler, Syst. Av. Lepto., sp. 6, 1827. 
Ocypterus minor Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. i., pi. I., 1837. 
Ocypterus fuscus “ Valenc. ” Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. I., p. 285, 1845 : error only. 
Artamus minor minor Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 368, 1912. 
Artamus minor derby i Mathews, ib., Jan. 31st, 1912 : Derby, North-west Australia ; id., 
Austr. Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 60, 1912 ; Soderberg, Kungl. Svenska Vet. Hand!., 
Band 52, p. 97, 1918. 
Micrartamus minor minor Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 236, 1913. 
Micrartamus minor derbyi Mathews, ib. ; id., South Austr. Ornith., Vol. 3, p. 178, 1918. 
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