Order PASSERIFORMES. 
Family MELITHREPTIDM. 
No. 694. 
CREADION PARADOXUS. 
WATTLE-BIRD. 
(Plate 550.) 
CORVI7S PARADOXUS Daudin, Traite d’Orn., Vol. II., p. 246, (May 14th) 1800 : “In Nova 
Zealandia ” errore=Tasmama. 
Corvus paradoxus Daudin, Traite d’Orn., Vol. II., p. 246, 1800 ; Latham, Index Ornith. 
Suppl., p. XXVI., 1801. 
Creadion novcehollandice Stephens in Shaw’s Gen. ZooL, Vol. XIV., p. 265 (end), 1826: 
“ N.Z.”=Tasmania. 
Anthochoera carunculata (not Latham) Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soo. (Lend.), 
Vol. XV., p. 321, 1827. 
Creadion pedunculatus Voight, ed. Cuvier’s Thier. Reich., Vol. I., p. 497, (pref. Easter) 
1831 : “ N.Z.”=Tasmania. 
Philedon paradoxus Voight, ih. 
Anthochoera* inaxiris Gould, Birds Austr., pt. x\t:. (Vol. IV., pi. 54), Sept. 1st, 1844: 
Tasmania; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 536, 1865; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. 
Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 190, 1878 ; Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IX., p. 263, 
1884; Legge, Papers Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1886, p. 240, 1887; Ramsay, Tab. 
List Austr. Birds, p. 13, 1888; HaU, Key Birds Austr., p. 44, 1899; Campbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 425, 1901; McCljinont, Emu, Vol. II., 
p. 97, 1902 ; A. G. Campbell, ih., p. 208, 1903 (King I.); Littler, ih., Vol. Ill, 
p. 88, 1903; A. G. Campbell, ih., Vol. IV., p. 123, 1905; Mellor, ih., Vol. VI., 
pp. 162-169, 1907; S. A. White, ih., Vol. VIII., p. 197, 1909 (King!.); Littler, 
Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 62, 1910 ; Fletcher, Emu, Vol. XI., p. 108, 1911; id., ib., 
Vol. XIII., p. 50, 1913. 
Anthochoera paradoxa North, Ibis, 1906, p. 57 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, 
Vol. IL, p. 163, 1907; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 99, 1908; id., Nov 
ZooL, Vol. XVIII., p. 419, 1912. 
Dyottornis paradoxus Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 288, 1913. 
Dyottornis paradoxus westernensis Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. III., pt. ni, p. 63, 
April 7th, 1916 : Western district of Tasmania. 
Creadion paradoxus paradoxus Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. IV., pt. 7, p. 169, 1922. 
* Also incorrectly spelt Acanthoccera. 
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