Order PASSERIFORMES. 
Family SITT1DM. 
No. 609. 
NEOSITTA CHRYSOPTERA. 
ORANGE-WINGED TREE-RUNNER. 
(Plate 496, 2 bottom figures.) 
Sitta chrysoptera Latham, Index Ornith. Suppl., p. xxxii., after May 1801, based on 
Watling Drawings Nos. 81 [and 82]: New South Wales. 
Sitta chrysoptera Latham, Index Ornith. Suppl., p. xxxii., 1801. 
Reops chrysoptera Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. XXXI., p. 337, 1819. 
Sittella chrysoptera Swainson, Classif. Birds, Vol. II., p. 317, 1837 ; Gould, Birds Austr., 
pt. xiv. (Vol. IV., pi. 101), March 1st, 1844; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 609, 
1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 191, 1878 ; Gadow, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus., Vol. VIII., p. 360, 1883 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 15, 1888 ; 
Hill, Key Birds Austr., p. 36, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., 
p. 337, 1901 ; Le Souef, Emu, Vol. I., p. 63, pi. v., 1902 ; Hill, ib., Vol. II., p. 165 
(1903), Vic.; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. II., p. 52, 1906 ; A. G. 
Campbell, Emu, Vol. VI., p. 181, 1907 ; Batey, ib., Vol. VII., p. 8, 1907 (Vic.); 
Austin, ib., p. 30 (N.S.W.). 
Neositta chrysoptera Hellmayr, Das Tierr., 18, p. 196, 1903; Mathews, Handl. Birds 
Austral., p. 87, 1908; Jackson, Emu, Vol. XII., p. 93, 1912 (Q.); S. A. White, 
ib., Vol. XIV., p. 142, 1915 (Mallee); Le Souef and Macpherson, ib., Vol. XX., 
p. 88, 1920 (N.S.W.) ; Gilbert, ib., Vol. XXII., p. 124, 1922. 
Neositta chrysoptera chrysoptera Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 379, 1912 ; id., 
List Birds Austr., p. 248, 1913. 
Neositta chrysoptera lathami Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 379, Jan. 31st, 1912 : 
Parwan, Victoria ; id., Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 61, 1912 ; id., List Birds Austr., 
p. 248, 1913 ; Belcher, Birds Geelong, p. 311, 1914. 
Distribution. New South Wales, Victoria, South Queensland (South Australia ?). 
Adult male. Crown of head from the fore-head to the nape dusky-black; sides of face 
similar but intermixed with grey ; hind-neck, back, and scapulars grey with blackish 
longitudinal centres to the feathers ; upper tail-coverts white with a subapical 
spot of black on some of the feathers ; upper wing-coverts blackish; flight-quills 
also blackish with pale margins at the tips and a band of cinnamon-chestnut across 
each feather, chiefly on the inner-web ; tail blackish with white tips to the feathers, 
except the two middle ones ; throat, middle of breast, and abdomen white; sides 
of breast and sides of body pale drab-grey with dark shaft-lines ; under tail-coverts 
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