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Genus MELLORIA Math. 
Melloria Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. vol. i. p. 114, Dec. 24th, 1912. 
Type (by original designation): Cracticus spaldingi Masters= 
Ramsay. 
Melloria quoyi (L. et G.). Black Butcher-Bird. 
Distr. — New Guinea, Queensland, and Northern Territory. 
Melloria quoyi quoyi (L. et G.). (8-94.) 
Barita quoyi Lesson et Garnot, Bull. Sc. Nat. & Geol. (Ferussac) 
vol. x. p. 289, 1827: Dorey Harbour, North-West New Guinea. 
Cracticus crassirostrts Salvadori, Atti R. Acc. Sc. Tor. vol. ix. p. 430, 1874 
New Guinea. 
Distr. — New Guinea. 
Melloria quoyi spaldingi (Rams.). 
Cracticus spaldingi Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. vol. ii. p. 211, 
Jan. 1878 (ex Masters MS.) (Masters, ib. p. 271, May, 1878): 
Port Darwin, Northern Territory. (Fig. Gould, ii. pi. 53.) 
Cracticus quoyi tunnyi Hartert, Nov. Zool. vol. xii. p. 228, Feb. 11th, 1905: 
Alligator River, Northern Territory. 
Distr .— Northern Territory. 
Melloria quoyi rufescens (De Vis). 
Cracticus rufescens De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. vol. vii. p. 562, 
April 1883: Tully River Scrubs, North Queensland. (Fig. 
Gould, N. G. iii. pi. 16 ; Math. x. pi. 484.) 
Distr .— North Queensland (Cairns to Cardwell). 
Melloria quoyi jardini (Math.). 
Cracticus quoyi jardini Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. vol. i. p. 94, 
Sept. 18th, 1912 : Cape York, North Queensland. 
Distr .— North Queensland (Cape York). 
Genus CRACTICUS V. 
Cracticus Vieillot, Analyse Nouv. Ornith. p. 37, April 14th, 1816. 
Type (by monotypy): Cassican-Calybe Buff.= Ramphastos cassicus 
Bodd. 
Barita Cuvier, R^gne Anim. vol. i. p. 340, 1817= Dec. 7th, 1816. Type (by 
subsequent designation, Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. vol. viii. p. 93, 1883): 
R. cassicus Bodd. 
Cracticus cassicus (Bodd.). (8-97.) Varied Butcher-Bird. 
Ramphastos cassicus Boddaert, Tabl. Planch. Enlum. p. 38, 1783 : 
New Guinea. 
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