Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 611. 
Family SITTlLh. 
NEOSITTA ALBATA. 
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PIED TREERUNNER. 
(Plate 496.) 
Sittella ALBATA Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1877, p. 351, August 1st: Bowen, 
Port Denison, North Queensland. 
Sittella albata Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1877, p. 351 ; id., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 
Vol. II., p. 192, 1878 ; Gould, Birds New Guinea, pt. xi. (Vol. III., pi. 28), Feb. 
1st, 1880 ; Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. VIII., p. 362, 1883; Ramsay, Tab. 
List Austr. Birds, p. 15, 1888; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 36, 1899; Campbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 340, 1901 ; A. G. Campbell, Emu, Vol. VI., 
p. 181, 1907. 
Neositta albata Hellmayr, Das Tierr., 18, p. 199, 1903; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., 
p. 88, 1908. 
Neositta leucocephala albata Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 379, 1912; id., List 
Birds Austr., p. 248, 1913. 
Neositta albata ramsayi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. V., pts. 2-3, p. 36, Feb. 21st, 1923: 
North of Brisbane, South Queensland. 
Neositta albata albata Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. Queensland (Port Denison to near the Brisbane District). 
Adult. Very similar to the adult of N. leucocephala, differing principally in having the 
wing-bar white, not buff. 
The sexes are alike. 
Nest and eggs. Very similar to those of N. leucocephala. 
To the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London the late Dr. E. P. 
Ramsay contributed a “ List of Birds met with in North-eastern Queensland, 
chiefly at Rockingham Bay.” This appeared in three parts in 1875, 1876 
and 1877. 
In the first portion dealing with the Passerine birds he included, p. 600: 
Sittella leucocephala. This very conspicuous species is far from being rare, 
and is usually met with hi open forest country over the whole of Northern 
Queensland as far as Cooktown. Its habits and actions and nidification do 
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