892 
PTILONORHYNCHIDiE. 
Chlamydera orientalis Gould, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5. vol. v, p. /4, 
July 1st, 1870 : North Queensland. 
Distr —North Queensland and Eastern Northern Territory. 
Rogersomis nuchalis oweni (Math.). 
Chlamydera nuchalis oweni Mathews, Nov. Zool. vol. xviii. p. 440, 
Jan. 31st, 1912: Point Torment, North-West Australia. (Fig. 
Math. xii. pi. 587.) 
Chlamydera nuchalis melviUensis Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. vol. i. p. 52. 
April 2nd, 1912 : Melville Island. 
Distr. —North-West Australia and Western Northern Territory. 
Genus AILUROEDUS Cab. 
Ailuroedus Cabanis, Mus. Hein. vol. i. p. 213, (note) (after Oct. 23rd) 
1851. Type (by monotypy): Ptilonorhynchus smithii V. & H.= 
Lanius crassirostris Paykull. 
Chlorokilta “ Kaup,” Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds, p. 148, (before April 18th) 
1855, as synonym of Ailuroedus. 
Ailuroedus crassirostris (Payk.). (6-385.) Green Cat-Bird. 
Lanius crassirostris Paykull, Nov. Act. Keg. Soc. Sci. Upsal. vol. vii. 
p. 283,1815 : Sydney, New South Wales. (Fig. Sharpe, ii. pi. 36 ; 
Gould, iv. pi. 11; Math. xii. pi. 583.) 
Coracina midis Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. nouv. ed. vol. viii. p. 9, 
March 15th, 1817 : Sydney, New South Wales. 
Kitta rirescens Temminek et Laugier, Planch. Color. d’Ois. livr. 07, pi. 390 
(vol. iv.), July 12th, 1820 : Sydney. 
Ptilonorhynchus viridis Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool. vol. xiv. pt. 1. p. 71, 
1820 (end): South Sea Islands=Sydney. 
Ptilonorhynchus smith* Vigors & Horsfiold, Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xv. p. 204, 
1827 : New South Wales. 
Ailuroedus crassirostris bloauwi Mathews, Nov. Zool. vol. xvii. p. 439, 
Jan. 31st, 1912 : Richmond River, Northern New South Wales. 
Ailuroedus viridis auetorum, not Oracula viridis Latham, 1801, which is 
Mimeta sagiitala. 
Distr .—New South Wales, South Queensland. 
Ailuroedus melanotis (Gray). Spotted Cat-Bird. 
Distr. —North Queensland, New Guinea, and Aru Islands. 
Ailuroedus melanotis melanotis (Gray). (6-383.) 
Ptilonorhynchus melanotis Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. 1858, p. 181, 
July 13th : Aru Islands. (Fig. Sharpe, ii. pi. 32.) 
Distr. —Aru Islands. 
Ailuroedus melanotis maculosus Baras. (6-385.) 
Aelurcedm maculosus Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1874, p. 601, 
April 1 st, 1875: Rockingham Bay, Queensland. (Fig. Sharpe, ii. 
pi 35 ; Gould, New Guinea, i. pi. 38 ; Math. xii. pi. 583.) 
