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SCYTHROPIDiE. —POLOPIIILIDiE. 
Family SCYTHROPID.E. 
Genus SCYTHROPS Latham. 
&cythrops Latham, Index Ornith. vol. i. p. 141, (before Dec. Oth) 
1790. Type (by monotypy) : Scythrops novwhollandicB Latham. 
Scythrops novaehollandiae (Latham). 
Distr. —Australia, New Guinea to Tenimber and Celebes. 
Scythrops novoehollandiae novaehollandiae (Latham). (19-330.) 
Scythrops novdchollandice Latham, Index Ornith. vol. i. p. 141, (before 
Dec. Oth) 1790: New South Wales. (Fig. Gould, iv. pi. 90.) 
Scythrops psitaceus Kerr, Anim. Kingd. p. 619, (pref. Fob.) 1792 : new name for 
novashollaudias. 
Scythrvpa anatralaaias Shaw, Gen. Zool. vol. viii. p. 378, 1811 : Now South 
Wales, 
Scythrops australis Swainson, Classif. Birds, vol. ii. p. 299, July 1st 1837 : 
New South Wales. 
Cue lilies prmaytts Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av. vol. i. p. 97 (before June 24th 
1850): as synonym of novnahollandim (ex Rcinw. MS.). 
Distr. —Queensland and New South Wales. 
Scythrops novaehollandiae neglectus Mathews. 
Scythrops novcehollandia neglectus Mathews, Nov. Zool. vol. xviii. 
p. 297, Jan. 31st, 1912: Parry’s Creek, North-West Australia. 
(Fig. Math. vii. pi. 361.) 
Distr. —North-West Australia, Northern Territory to New 
Guinea, Tenimber, and Celebes. 
Family POLOPHIL1LLF * 
Genus POLOPHILUS Leach. 
Polophilus Leach, Zool. Miscell. vol. i. p. 115, 1814. Type (by sub¬ 
sequent designation. Gray, Gen. Birds, vol. ii. p. 455, Sept. 1846) : 
O. phasianinus Latham. J * 
Polophilus phasianinus (Latham). 
Distr .—Tropical Northern Australia and New South Wales. 
* Centropus IlKger Prod p. 205, (pref. April 31st) 1811. Type (by subsequent 
LlBt Gen Binl8 ’ 1840 ’ P ’ 56): Centr0pus ^jyptius Gmelin 
