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Polophilus phasianinus phasianinus (Latham). (19-340.) 
Guculus phasianinus Latham, Index Ornith., Suppl. p. xxx, (after 
May) 1801, based on Watling’s drawing No. 73: New South 
Wales. 
Polophilus variegatu8 Leach, Zool. Misccll. vol. i. p. 116, 1814: New South 
Wales. 
Polophilus gigas Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool. vol. ix. p. 45,1815: New South 
Wales. 
Corydonix giganteus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. vol. xxxiv. p. 295, Dec. 
1S19 : New South Wales. 
Centropus speciosus Mathews, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. xliv. p. 70, March 31st, 
1924 : as synonym of phasianinus (ex Brookes, 1830). 
Centropus affinis , Mathews, ib.: as synonym of phasianinus (ex Gould, 1841). 
Distr. —South Queensland and New South Wales. 
Polophilus phasianinus melanurus (Gould). 
Centropus melanurus Gould, Birds Austr. pt. xxix. (vol. iv., text to 
pi. 92), Dee. 1st, 1847: North-West Australia=Derby. (Fig. 
Math. vii. pi. 302.) 
Centropus macrourus Gould,ib.: Port Essington, N.T. 
Polophilus phasianinus keatsi Ashby, South Austr. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 72, July 
1915: Port It eats, N.T. 
Polophilus phasianinus yorki Mathews, Austral Av. Eec. vol. iii. p. 58, April 7tli, 
1910 : Cape York, Queensland. 
Polophilus phasianinus melvilleyisis Mathews, Birds Austr. vol. vii. p. 391, 
July 10th, 1919: Melville Island, N.T. 
Distr .—Northern Australia. 
Polophilus phasianinus highami Mathews. 
Folophilus phasianinus liighami Mathews, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, 
vol. xliii. p. 13, Oct. 27th, 1922: Ashburton River, Mid-West 
Australia. 
IHstr. —Mid-West Australia. 
Genus RHAMPHOMANTIS Salvad. 
Bhaniphomantis Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vol. xiii. p. 459,1879. 
Type (by monotypy): Cuculus megarhynchus Gray. 
Rhamphomantis megarhynchus (Gray). (19-329.) 
Cuculus megarhynchus Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1858, p. 184: 
Aru Islands. 
Distr. —New Guinea and Aru Islands. 
Genus NESOCENTOR 0. & H. 
Nesocentor Cabanis & Heine, Mus. Hein. vol. iv. p. 118, 1804. 
Type (by original designation) : Centropus goliath Bp. 
Nesocentor menbeki (L. & G.). 
Distr .—New Guinea and Aru Islands. 
