Order PASSERIFORMES. 
Family CL1MACTERIDM. 
No. 622. 
WHITLOCKA MELANURA. 
BLACK-TAILED TREE CREEPER. 
(Plates 503, 504.) 
Climacteris melantjra Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1842, p. 138, Feb. 1843: Derby, 
North-west Australia. 
Climacteris melanura Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Loud.), 1842, p. 138, 1843 ; id., Birds Austr., 
pt. xiv. (Vol. IV., pi. 97), March 1st, 1844 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 604, 
1865; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 191, 1878; Gadow, Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. VIII., p. 334, 1883 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 15, 
1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 35, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, 
Vol. I., p. 329, 1901 ; Hall, Emu, Vol. II., p. 53, 1902 (N.W.A.); Le Souef, ib., 
p. 91 (N.T.); North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. II., p. 46, 1906; A. G. 
Campbell, Emu, Vol. VI., p. 181, 1907 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 88, 
1908 ; Whitlock, Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 182, 1909 (W.A.); Mathews, ib., Vol. 1X„ 
p. 69, 1909 (N.W.A.); Crossman, ib., Vol. X., p. 112, 1910 (N.W.A.); Hill, ib., 
p. 282, 1911 (N.W.A.); G. F. Hill, ib., Vol. XII., p. 259, 1913 (N.T.); Macgillivrav, 
ib., Vol. XIII., p. 175, 1914 (N.T.); Barnard, ib., Vol. XIV., p. 48, 1914 (XT.) ; 
H. L. White, ib., Vol. XVI., p. 226, 1917 (N.T.); F. E. Howe, ib., Vol. XXI., p. 38, 
1921 (Review). 
Climacterus melanura melanura Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 381, Jan. 31st, 
1912. 
Climacteris melanura alexandrce Mathews, ib. : Alexandra, Northern Territory. 
Whitlocka melanura melanura Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 251; id ., South Austr. Orn., 
Vol. 3, p. 205, 1915. 
Whitlocka melanura alexandrce Mathews, ib. 
WHITLOCKA WELLSI. 
Climacteris wellsi Grant, Ibis (Oct. No.), 1909, p. G64, reed. B.M. Sept. 27th, 1909: Clifton 
Downs, West Australia ; Campbell, Emu, Vol. X., p. 299, 1911 (eggs), 
Climacteris melanura wellsi Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 381, Jan. 31st, 1912. 
Whitlocka melanura wellsi Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 251, 1913. 
Whitlocka wellsi striata Mathews, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, Vol. XLIV., p. 15, Nov. 5th, 1923. 
Shaw River, Mid-west Australia. 
Whitlocka wellsi wellsi , Mathews, ib. 
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