Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 613. 
Family S1TT1DM. 
NEOSITTA LEUCOPTERA. 
WHITE-WINGED TREERUNNER. 
(Plate 497.) 
Sittella leucoptera Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1839, p. 144, March 1840 : North¬ 
west Coast of Australia=Port Essington, Northern Territory. 
Sittella leucoptera Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1839, p. 144, 1840 ; id., Birds Austr., 
pt. xiv. (Vol. IV., pi. 103), March 1st, 1844 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. L, 
p. 611, 1865; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 192, 1878; Gadow, 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. VIII., p. 363, 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. 343, 1901; Hall, Emu, Vol. II., p. 53, 1902 (N.W.A.); (?) Milligan, 
ib., Vol. HI., p. 233, 1904 (S.W.A.); A. G. Campbell, ib„ Vol. VI., p. 182, 1907; 
(?) Broadbent, ib., Vol. X., p. 239, 1910 (N.Q.). 
Neositta leucoptera Hellmayr, Has Tierr., 18, p. 198, 1903 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., 
p. 88, 1908; id.., Emu, Vol. IX., pp. 12-62, 1909 (N.W.A., N.T.); G. F. Hill, l^., 
p. 282, 1911 (N.W.A.); H. L. White, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 186, 1914 (eggs); Barnard, 
ib., p. 209 (N.T.); id., ib., Vol. XIV., p. 48, 1914 (N.T.); North, Austr. Mus. Spec. 
Cat. No. 1, Vol. IV., p. 432, 1914; H. L. White, Emu, Vol. XVI., p. 226, 1917 
(N.T.); Campbell, ib., Vol. XVIII., p. 184, 1919 (N.T.). 
Neositta mortoni North, Ibis, 1912, p. 118, Feb. 7th : Port Essington, Northern Territory ; 
id., Emu, Vol. XII., p. 53, 1912; Macgillivray, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 174, 1914 (N.Q.). 
Neositta pileata leucoptera Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 380, 1912 ; id., List Birds 
Austr., p. 249, 1913. 
Neositta pileata rogersi Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 380, Jan. 31st, 1912 : Mungi, 
(interior) Northwest Australia ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 248, 1913. 
Neositta pileata subleucoptera Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 380, Jan. 31st, 1912 : 
Alexandra, Northern Territoxy ; id.. List Birds Austr., p. 249, 1913. 
Neositta pileata melvillensis Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 2, p. 47, April 2nd, 1912 : 
Melville Island, Northern Territory ; id.. List Birds Austr., p. 249, 1913. 
Neositta pileata broomei Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 4, p. 95, Sept. 18th, 1912 : 
Napier Broome Bay, North-west Australia. 
Neositta pileata napieri Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., pts. 2-3, p. 68, Oct. 23rd, 1913 : 
newname for preceding, which is not N. p. broomi Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., 
p. 380 (Jan. 31st), 1912 ; id.. List Birds Austr., p. 249, 1913; id., South Austr. 
Orn., Vol. 3, p. 179, 1918. 
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