Order PASSERIFORMES. Family MELITHREPTIDM 
No. 695. 
ANTHOCILERA CHRYSOFIERA. 
' BRUSH WATTLE-BIRD. 
(Plates 551-552.) 
Meuops chrysopterus Latham, Index Ornitli. Suppl., p. xxxiii., (after May 30th) 1801: 
New South Wales, based on Lambert drawing (Watling No. 90). 
Merops chrysopterus Latham, Index Omith. Suppl., p. xxxiii., 1801. 
Oerthia mellivora Latham, ib., p. xxxvii. : New South Wales, based on Lambert drawing 
(Watling No. 104). 
<j!olden-winged Bee-eater Latham, Gen. S^vnops. Birds, Suppl., p. 153, 1801. 
Mellivorous Creeper Latham, ib., p. 166. 
Oerthia Beelistein, KurzeUebers. Vogel, p. 198, 1811: New South Wales. 
Anthochcera* mellivora Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Liim. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 321, 
1827 ; Gould, Birds Austr., pt. ii. (Vol. IV., pi. 56), March 1st, 1841; Gadow, Cat. 
Birds Brit, Mus., Vol. IX., p. 264, 1884; Legge, Papers Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 
1886, p. 240, 1887 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 44, 1899; Campbell, Nests and 
Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 425, 1901 ; Fletcher, Emu, Vol. IV., p. 16, 1904 
(Tas.) ; MiUigan, ib., p. 51 (W.A.) ; A. G. Campbell, ib., p. 123, 1905 (Tas.); id., 
ib., Vol. V., p. 144, 1906 (Kangaroo Island); Batey, ib., Vol. VII., p. 9, 1907 
(Vic.) ; Hill, ib., p. 19 (Vic.); North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. II., p. 165, 
1907 ; Hall, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 130, 1910 (S.A.) ; Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 64, 
1910 (Tas.); Fletcher, Emu, Vol. XL, p. 108, 1911 (Tas.). 
Anthochmra lunulata Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., App., p. 5, April 1st, 1838: 
Swan River, West Australia ; id., Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1837, p. 153, Dec. 1838; 
id.. Birds Austr., pt. xxm. (Vol. IV., pi. 57), June 1st, 1846; Gadow, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus., Vol. IX., p. 265, 1884 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 45, 1899 ; Campbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 426, 1901 ; Milligan, Emu, Vol. II., p. 74, 
1902 ; id., ib., Vol. III., p. 19, 1903; Hill, ib., p. 228, 1904; jVIUhgan, ib., Vol. IV., 
p. 51, 1904; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. II., p. 167, 1907. 
Anellobia mellivora Cabanis, Mus. Hein., Vol. I., p. 120, 1851; Gould, Handb. Birds 
Austr., Vol. I., p. 541, 1865; Ramsay, Proc. Liim. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. H., p. 190, 
1878 ; id.. Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 13, 1888 ; S. A. White, Emu, Vol. XIV., p. 143, 
1915 (Mallacoota). 
* Also incorrectly spelt Acanthochcera, 
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