SITTIDJE. 
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Callisitta azurea (Less.). (8-357.) Timor Tree-runner. 
Sitta azurea Lesson, Traits d’Oru. p. 316, 1830 : no locality=Timor. 
Dendrophila flavipes Swainson, Anim. in Menag. p. 323, 1837: India, error= 
Timor. (Fig. Gray & Mitchell, vol. i. pi. 45.) 
Dendrophila gymnophrys Beichenbach, Handb. Scans. Icon. Syn. Ay. Cont. 
no. 10, p. 154, 1853; ex Bonaparte, as quoted p. 226. 
Distr. —Java and Timor. 
Genus NEOSITTA Hellm. 
Neositta Hellmayr, Journ. fiir Ornith. (April) 1901, p. 187 (new name 
for Sittella Sw. 1837, not Raf.). Type (by monotypy): Sitta 
ckrysoptera Latham. 
Sittella Swainson, Classif. Birds, vol. ii. p. 317, July 1st, 1837 (ex Ency. Geogr. 
(Murray), p. 1484, July 1834 ; nude name). Type (by monotypy) : Sitta 
ckrysoptera Latham. Not Sittella Rafinesque, Analyse de la Nature, p. 68, 
1815. 
Neositella Mathews, Austral Ay. Rec. vol. i. p. 114, Dec. 24th, 1912. Type 
(by original designation): Sitella striata Gould. 
Neositta chrysoptera (Lath ). Orange-winged Tree-runner. 
Distr. —Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia, and 
Victoria. 
Neositta chrysoptera chrysoptera Lath. (8-360.) 
Sitta chrysoptera Latham, Ind. Orn., Suppl. p. xxxii, (after May 30th) 
1801 : Sydney, New South Wales. (Fig. Gould, iv. pi. 101.) 
Distr. —Queensland and New South Wales. 
Neositta chrysoptera lathami Math. 
Neositta chrysoptera lathami Mathews, Nov. Zool. vol. xviii. p. 379, 
Jan. 31st, 1912: Parwan, Victoria. (Fig. Math. xi. pi. 496.) 
Distr. —Victoria and South Australia. 
Neositta leucocephala (Gould). (8-361.) 
White-headed Tree-runner. 
Sittella leucocephala Gould, Synops. Birds Austr. pt.iv. pi. 68, April 1st, 
1838 : Moreton Bay, South Queensland. (Fig. Gould, iv. pi. 102 • 
Math. xi. pi. 496.) 
Neositta leucoptera (sic) lumhdtzi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. vol. iii. p. 61 
April 7th, 1910 : Mid Queensland. 
Distr .—South and Mid Queensland. 
Neositta albata (Rams.). (8-362.) Pied Tree-runner. 
Sittella albata Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1877, p. 351, August 1st: 
Bowen, Port Denison, Mid Queensland. (Fig. Gould, N. G. iii. 
pi. 28 ; Math. xi. pi. 496.) 
Neositta albata ramaryi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. vol. iv. p. 36, Feb. 21st 
1923 : north of Brisbane, South Queensland. 
Distr .—South and Mid Queensland. 
