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Podargus strigoides (Latham). 
Distr .—Australia and Tasmania. 
Podargus strigoides strigoides (Latham). (16-631.) 
Caprimulgus strigoides Latham, Index Ornith., Suppl. p. lxviii, after 
May 1801 (based on Watling drawing no. 220) : New South Wales. 
(Fig. Gould, ii. pis. 3 & 4: Math. vii. pi. 326.) 
Capritnnlgu* megacephalns Latham, ib. on no. 221 : New South Wales. 
Caprimulgus gracilis Latham, ib. on no. 222 : New South Wales. 
Podargus cinereus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. vol. xxvii. p. 151, Dec. 26th, 
1818: New South Wales. 
Caprimulgus podargus Dumont, Diet. Sci. Nat. (Lcvrault), vol. xiv. p. 504, 
Aug. 14th, 1819 : new name for Podargus cinereus Vieillot. 
Podargus australis Stephens, in Shaw's Gen. Zool. vol. xiii. pt. ii. p. 92, Peb. 18th, 
1826 : New South Wales. 
Podargus etanleyanus Vigors & Horsfield, 'Frans. Linn. Soc. Loud. vol. xv. 
p. 197, Feb. 17tli, 1827: New South Wales. 
Podargus humeralis Vigors & Horsfield, ib. p. 198 : New South Wales. 
Caprimulgus orassirostris Pelzeln, Ibis, Jan. 1873, p. 107 : as synonym of 
megacephalus. 
Podargus strigoides victoria Mathews, Nov. Zool. vol. xviii.p. 282, 1912 : Bays- 
water, Victoria. 
Podargus gigas Mathews, Birds Austr. vol. vii. p. 36, March 4th, 1918 : as 
synonym of strigoides (ex Nitzsch, Syst. Pterylog. p. 125, pref. May 20th, 
1840, nude name). 
Distr. —New South Wales and Victoria. 
Podargus strigoides cuvieri V. & H. 
Podargus cuvieri Vigors & Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 
vol. xv. p. 200, Feb. 17th, 1827 : Tasmania. 
Distr . — Tasmania. 
Podargus strigoides phalaenoides Gould. (16-634.) 
Podargus phalcenoides Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1839, p. 142, 
March 1840: Port Essington, Northern Territory. (Fig. Gould, 
ii. pi. 5 ; Math. vii. pi. 325.) 
Podargus vincendoni Jacquinot & Pucheran, Voy. P61e Sud, vol. iii. p. 92, (before 
Oct. 10th) 1853: Borneo, error= Raffles Bay. 
Podargus strigoides melvillensis Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. vol. i. p. 37, 
April 2nd, 1912 : Melville Island. 
Distr. —Northern Territory. 
Podargus strigoides brachypterus Gould. 
Podargus brachypterus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1840, p. 163, 
July 1841 : South-West Australia. 
Podargus macrorhynchus , id., ib. : alternative name. 
Distr. — South-West A ustral i a. 
Podargus strigoides gouldi Masters. 
Podargus gouldi Masters, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. vol. i. p. 45, 
Feh. 1876 : Kimberley (Norman River), Gulf of Carpentaria. 
Podargus strigoides cornu'olli Mathews, Nov. Zool. vol. xviii. p. 282, Jan. 31st, 
1912: Mackay. Queensland. 
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