Order PASSERIFORMES. Family SITTIdM 
No. 612. 
NEOSITTA PILEATA. 
BLACK-CAPPED TREE RUNNER. 
(Plate 497.) 
Sittella pileata Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., pi. (68), April 1st, 1838: Swan 
River, West Australia. 
Sittella pileata Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., pi. (68), April 1838; id., Proc. Zool. 
Soc. (Lond.), 1837, p. 151, Dec. 1838 ; id., Birds Austr., pt. xiv. (Yol. IV., pi. 104), 
March 1st, 1844; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 612, 1865; Ramsay, Proc. 
Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 192, 1878; 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; 
Milligan, Emu, Vol. II., p. 73, 1902 (W.A.); id., ib., Vol. III., p. 18, 1903 (W.A.); 
Carter, ib., p. 91 (M.W.A.) ; H. E. Hill, ib., p. 106 (W.A.); Milligan, ib., Vol. IV., 
p. 10, 1904 (W.A.); Lawson, ib., p. 135, 1905 (W.A.); North, Austr. Mus. Spec. 
Cat., No. 1, Vol. II., p. 55, 1906 ; G. F. Hill, Emu, Vol. VII., p. 18, 1907 (Vic.); 
J. A. Hill, ib., p. 37 (Vic.); Gibson, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 74, 1909 (W.A.); Crossman, 
ib., p. 89 (W.A.); S. A. White, ib., Vol. XII., p. 3, 1912 (S.A.); Stone, ib., p. 116, 
1912 (Vic.). 
Sittella melanocephalus Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., pi. (68), April 1838: Swan 
River, West Australia ; id., Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1837, p. 152, Dec. 1838. 
Sittella tenuirostris Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 610, note (Dec.), 1865: South 
Australia ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 36, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. 
Birds, Vol. I., p. 342, 1901 ; Milligan, Emu, Vol. III., p. 114, 1903; North, Austr. 
Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. II., p. 55, 1906 ; A. G. Campbell, Emu, Vol. VI., p. 181, 
1907. 
Sittella pileata subsp. tenuirostris Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. VIII., p. 363, 1883. 
Sittella chrysoptera var. tenuirostris Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 15, 1888. 
Neositta pileata Hellmayr, Das Tierr., 18, p. 197, 1903; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., 
p. 88, 1908 ; Hall, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 129, 1910 (S.A.) ; Whitlock, ib., p. 208, 1910 
(W.A.); Howe, ib., p. 233, 1910 (Vic.) ; Carter, ib., Vol. X., p. 294, 1911 (S.W.A.); 
Cleland, ib., Vol. XII., p. 14, 1912 (Food); Wilson, ib., p. 37 (Vic.) ; S. A. White, 
ib., Vol. XIII., p. 30, 1913 (S.A.); id., ib., p. 128, 1914 (S.A.) ; Howe and 
Tregellas, ib., Vol. XIV., p. 82, 1914 (Vic.) ; Sodorberg, Kungl. Svenska Vet. 
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