Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 647. 
Family MERITHREPTIDM. 
ACANTHORHYNCHUS TENUIROSTRIS. 
SPINEBILL. 
(Plate 518.) 
Certhia TENUIROSTRIS Latham, Index Omith. Suppl., p. xxxvi. (after May 30th), 1801 : 
New South Wales=Sydney. 
Certhia tenuirostris Latham, Index Omith. Suppl., p. xxxvi., 1801. 
Slender-billed Creeper Latham, Gen. Synops. Birds, Suppl. II., p. 165, pi. cxxix., 1801. 
Certhia cucidlata Vieillot, Ois. Lores, Vol. II., pi. 60, p. 121, 1802, ex Shaw’s MS. : New 
Holland=Sydney. 
Certhia sufjuscula Bechstein, Kurze Uebersicht Vogel, p. 195 (pref. April 12th, 1810), 1811, 
based on Oiseaux Lores, pi. 56, Heorotaires, a young bird: Sydney, New South 
Wales. 
Melithreptus collaris Vieillot, Nouv. Lict. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. XIV., p. 324, Sept. 13th, 
1817 : on same basis as preceding. 
Meliphaga tenuirostris Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., Vol. XIV., p. 264, 1826. 
Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. n., 1837; id ., Birds Austr., 
pt. xi. (Vol. IV., pi. 61), June 1st, 1843; id ., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 551, 
1865; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 190, 187S ; Gadow, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus., Vol. IX., p. 144, 1884; Legge, Papers Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1886, 
p. 240, 1887 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 13, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., 
p. 37, 1899; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 358, 1901; Littler, 
Emu, Vol. II., p. 169, 1903 (Tas.) ; A. G. Campbell, Ib., p. 207 (King Island); id., 
lb ., Vol. IV., p. 122, 1905 ; McClymont, ib ., p. 176 (Tas.); North, Austr. Mus. Spec. 
Cat. No. 1, Vol. II., p. 101, 1906 ; Batey, Emu, Vol. VII., p. 8, 1907 (Vic.); Hill, 
ib., p. 18 (Vic.); Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 93, 1908; Chisholm, Emu, 
Vol. IX., p. 166, 1910 (Vic.); Cleland, ib ., p. 224 (Food); Littler, Handb. Birds 
Tasm., p. 54, 1910 ; Ingle, Emu, Vol. X., p. 124, 1910 (Vic.); Broadbent, ib., 
Vol. X., p. 239, 1910 (N.Q.); Cleland, ib., Vol. XI., p. 90, 1911 (Food); Fletcher, 
ib., p. 107 (Tas.); S. A. White, ib., Vol. XIV., p. 143, 1915 (Vic.); Purnell, 
ib., Vol. XV., p. 43, 1915 (Vic.); Mattingley, ib., Vol. XVIII., p. 209, 1919 (Vic.); 
S. A. White, ib., Vol. XIX., p. 220, 1920 (Q.) ; Cleland, ib., p. 248 (Economics); 
Le Souef and Macpherson, ib., Vol. XX., p. 90, 1920 (N.S.W.). 
Acmthorhynchus ditbius Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. n., pi. 27, April 1st, 1837 : Van 
Diemen’s Land ; id., Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1837, p. 25 ; id., Introd. Birds Austr., 
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