Order PASSERIFORMES. Family FALCUNCULIDIE. 
No. 602. 
FALCUNCULUS FRONTATUS. 
YELLOW-BELLIED SHRIKE-TIT. 
(Plate 491.) 
Lanius frontatus Latham, Index Ornith. Suppl., p. xviii., after May, 1801 : New South 
Wales. 
Lanius frontatus Latham, Index Ornith. Suppl., p. xviii., 1801. 
Frontal Shrike, Latham, Gen. Synops. Birds, Suppl. II., p. 75, pi. cxxir., 1801. 
Falcunculus frontatus* Vieillot, Analyse nouv. Ornith., p. 40, 1816 ; Gould, Birds Austr.,pt. 
v. (Vol. II., pi. 79), Dec. 1st, 1841 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Yol. I., p. 228, 1865; 
Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 181, 1878 ; Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus., Vol. VIII., p. 173, 1883 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 5, 1888 ; Hall, 
Key Birds Austr., p. 32, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., 
308, 1901 ; A. G. Campbell, Emu, Vol. IV., p. 112, 1905 (Vic.); North, Austr. 
Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. II., p. 36, 1906 ; Batey, Emu, Vol. VII., p. 8, 1907 (Vic.); 
Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 84, 1908 ; Cleland, Emu, Vol. TX., p. 223, 1910 
(Food) ; Broadbent, ib., Vol. X., p. 236 (N.Q.) ; Mattingley, ib., Vol. XIV., p. 63, 
1914 (Vic.); Cheney, ib., p. 208, 1915 (Vic.); Ramsay, ib., Vol. XV., p. 48, pi. on 
p. 49, 1915 (N.S.W.); Chisholm, ib., p. 78, 1915 (Vic.); Ashby, ib., Vol. XVI., 
p. 233, 1917 (S.A.) ; Campbell and Barnard, ib., Vol. XVII., p. 23, 1917 (N.Q.); 
Le Souef and Macpherson, ib., Vol. XX., p. 86, 1920 (N.S.W.). 
Falcunculus flavigulus Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., App., p. 2, April 1838; 
“ Australia ”=New South Wales ; id., Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1837, p. 144, Dec. 
1838; Ala thews, Emu, Vol. XI., p. 105, 1911 ; Witmer Stone, Austral Av. Rec., 
Vol. I., pts. 6-7, p. 169, 1913. 
Falcunculus gouldi Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 365, 1850 (before Feb. 1851), ex 
Cabanis MS. : “ ex Austr. m. or ”=New r South Wales ; Cabanus, Mus. Heine, Vol. I., 
p. 66 (after Oct. 23rd), 1851. 
Falcunculus whitei Campbell, Emu, Vol. X., pt. 3, p. 167, Dec. 1st, 1910 : Napier Broome 
Bay, North-west Australia ; Hill, ib., p. 281 ; Barnard, ib., Vol. XIV., p. 47, 1914 
(N.T.); H. L. White, ib., p. 58. 
Falcunculus frontatus frontatus Mathews, Emu, Vol. XI., p. 105, 1911 ; id., Nov. Zoo!., 
Vol. XVIII., p. 375, 1912 ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 244, 1913. 
* Sometimes mis-spelt frontalis. 
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