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JE GOTH ELI DAS* 
Family ^GOTHELIDiE. 
Genus ^EGOTHELES V. & H. 
JEyotheles Vigors & Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xv. pt. i. p. 194, 
Feb. 17th, 1826. Type (by monotypy) : Caprimulyus crista tun 
White. 
iEgotheles cristata (White) (Shaw?). 
Distr .—Australia and Tasmania, New Guinea and Islands. 
IEgotheles cristata cristata (White). (16-651.) 
Caprimulyus cristatus White, Journ. Voy. New South Wales, pi. opp. 
p. 241, (reviewed Aug.) 1790 : New South Wales. (Fig. Gould, 
ii. pi. 1.) 
Caprimulyus novsshollandiie Latham, Index Orn. vol. ii. p. 588, (before Dec. 9th) 
1790 : New South Wales (based on Phillip’s plate). 
Caprimulyus vittatus Latham, id., Suppl. p. lviii, (after May) 1801 : New South 
Wales (based on Watling drawing no. 219). 
ASyotheles lumdutus Jardine A Selby, Tllustr. Omith. vol. iii. pt. x. pi. 149 
Dec. 1835: New South Wales. 
Mgotheles australis Swainaon, Class. Birds, vol. ii. p. 338, July 1st, 1837: new 
name for cristatus. 
Distr. —South Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South 
Australia, and South-West Australia. 
.ffigotheles cristata leucogaster (Gould). 
JEyotheles leucoq aster Gould, Birds Austr. pt. xvi. vol. ii. pi. 2, 
Sept. 1st, 1844: Port Essington, Northern Territory. (Fig. 
Gould, ii. pi. 2.) 
JEyotheles cristata melvillensis Mathews, Birds Austr. vol. vii. p. 67, March 4th, 
1918 : Melville Island. 
Distr. —Northern Territory. 
.flSgotheles cristata rufa Hall. 
JEyotheles rufa Hall, Viet. Naturalist, vol. xviii. p. 89, Oct. 10th, 
1901 : Derby, North-West Australia. (Fig. Math. vii. pi. 330.) 
JEyotheles rufescens Hall, ib. p. 60, Aug. 6th : not Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 
sor. ii. vol. xvi. p. 71, 1896. 
AZgofheles cristata murchisoniana Mathews, Nov. Zool. vol. xviii. p. 284 
Jan. 31st, 1912 : East Murchison, West Australia. 
Distr .—North-West Australia. 
.IEgotheles cristata tasmanica Mathews. 
JEyotheles cristata tasmanica Mathews, Birds Austr. vol. vii. pt. i. 
p. 65, March 4th, 1918: Launceston, r J Tasmania. 
Distr. —Tasmania. 
