Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 627. 
Family D1CIE1D/E. 
MICROCHELIDON HIRUNDINACEA. 
FLOWERPECKER, OR MISTLETOE-BIRD. 
(Plate 507.)* 
Motacilla hirundinacea Shaw and Nodder, Naturalists’ Miscellany, Vol. IV., pi. 114, 
Aug. 1st, 1792 : New South Wales. 
Motacilla hirundinacea Shaw and Nodder, Naturalists’ Miscellany, Vol. IV., pi. Ill, 1792. 
Swallow Warbler Latham, Gen. Synops. Birds, Suppl. II., p. 250, 1801. 
Crimson-breasted Warbler Latham, id., ib. 
Sylvia rubricollis Latham, Index Omith. Suppl., p. lv., 1801 (after May). 
Sylvia hirundinacea Latham, id., ib. 
Pipra gxdaris Lewin, Birds New Holland, pi. vn., p. 11, 1808 : New South Wales. 
[Not Pipra gularis Latham, Index Ornith. Suppl., p. lvii., 1801.] 
Pipra desmaretitf Leach, Zool. Miscellany, Vol. I., p. 94, pi. 41, 1814: New South Wales. 
Malurus hirundinaceus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., nouv. ed., Vol. XX., p. 214, 
1818. 
Crimson-tliroat Flycatcher Lewin, Birds New South Wales, p. 7, pi. vn., 1822. 
Dicceum atrogaster Lesson, Traite d’Ornith., livr. 4, p. 303, Sept. 25th, 1830 : New South 
Wales. 
Dicceum perdalodus Lafresnaye, Mag. de Zool., 1833, pi. 14 : New South Wales. 
Dicceum hirundinaceum Gould, Birds Austr., pt. v. (Vol. II., pi. 34), Dec. 1st, 1841 ; id., 
Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 581, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 
Vol. II., p. 191, 1878 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. X., p. 19, 1885 ; Ramsay, 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Ser. 2, Vol. I., p. 1,093, 1886: 1887; id., Tab. List Austr. 
Birds, p. 14, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 46, 1899; Campbell, Nests and 
Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 437, 1901 ; Hall, Emu, Vol. II., p. 52, 1902 
(N.W.A.); Carter, ib., Vol. III., p. 93, 1903 (M.W.A.); Milligan, ib., Vol. IV., 
pp. 8-10, 1904 (S.W.A.); Berney, ib., Voh V., p. 76, 1905 (N.Q.); Batey, ib., 
Vol. VII., p. 10, 1907 (Vic.); Hill, ib., p. 20 (Vic.); North, Austr. Mus. Spec. 
Cat. No. 1, Vol. II., p. 214, 1907 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 90, 1908; 
Whitlock, Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 185, 1909 (W.A.); Mathews, ib., Vol. IX., pp. 62-69 
(N.W.A.,N.T.); Broadbent, ib., Vol. X., p. 239, 1910 (N.Q.); G. F. Hill, ib., p. 283, 
1911 (N.W.A.); Barnard, ib., Vol. XI., p. 28, 1911 (N.Q.); Chandler, ib., Vol. XII., 
p. 130, 1912 ; Hill, ib., p. 259, 1913 (Central Australia); S. A. White, ib., Vol. XIII., 
* The Plate is lettered A ustrodiccEum hirundinaceum. 
t Also spelt desmarestii. 
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