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MELlTHREPTIDiE, 
Neophilemon argenticeps (Gould). Silver-crowned Friar-bird. 
Distr. —Northern Australia. 
Neophilemon argenticeps argenticeps (Gould). (9-272.) 
Tropidorhynchus argenticeps Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1839, 
p. 144, March, 1840: Port Essington, Northern Territory. (Fig. 
Gould, pi. 59; Math. xii. pi. 554.) 
Philemon argenticeps atexis Mathews, Nov. Zool. vol. xviii. p. 422, Jan. 31st, 
1912 : Alexandra, Northern Territory. 
Philemon argenticeps mdvUlensis Mathows, Austral Av. Rcc. vol. i. p. 51, 
April 2nd, 1912 : Melville Island, Northern Territory. 
Distr .—Northern Territory. 
Neophilemon argenticeps kempi (Mathews). 
Philemon argenticeps kempi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. vol. i. p. 101, 
Sept. 18th, 1912: Cape York, North Queensland. 
Distr. —North Queensland. 
Neophilemon argenticeps broomei (Math.). 
Philemon argenticeps broomei Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. vol. i. p. 101, 
Sept. 18th, 1912 : Napier Broome Bay, North-West Australia. 
(Fig. Math. xii. pL 554.) 
Distr .—North-West Australia. 
Genus TROPIDORHYNCHUS V. k H. 
Tropidorhynchus Vigors & Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. vol. xv. 
p. 323, Feb. 17th, 1827. Type (by subsequent designation, Gray, 
1840, p. 16): Merops corniculatus Lath. 
Tropidorhynchus corniculatus (Lath.). Noisy Friar-bird. 
Distr. —Queensland and New South Wales. 
Tropidorhynchus corniculatus corniculatus (Lath.). (9-271.) 
Merops corniculatus Latham, Index Orn. vol. i. p. 276, (before 
Dec. 9th) 1790: Sydney, New South Wales. (Fig. Gould, iv. 
pi. 58.) 
Merops monachus Latham, Index Ora., Suppl. p. xxxiv, (after May) 1801 : 
Sydney. 
Ph. com. var minor Sassi, Joum, f. Ornith. July, 1909, p. 378; as synonym 
of corniculatus. 
Distr.— South Queensland and New South Wales. 
Tropidorhynchus corniculatus ellioti (Math.). 
Philemon corniculatus ellioti Mathews, Nov. Zool. vol. xviii. p. 423, 
Jan. 31st, 1912: Mt. Elliot, Queensland. 
Tropidorhytiehiis corniculatus watsoni Mathews, Birds Austr. vol. xii. pt. 3 
p. 110, pi. 556, June 22nd, 1925 : Watson River, North Queensland. 
Distr .— North Queensland. 
