Order PASSERIFORMES. Family MELITHREPTIBM. 
No. 697. 
NEOPHILEMON ARGENTICEPS. 
SILVERY-CROWNED FRIAR-BIRD. 
(Plate 554.) 
Tropidorhynchus ARGENTICEPS Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lend.), 1839, p. 144, March 
1840 : North-west Coast Australia=Port Essington, Northern Territory. 
Tro'pidorhynchtLs argentkeps Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1839, p. 144, 1840; id., 
Birds Austr., pt. n. (Vol. IV., pi. 59), March 1st, 1841; id., Handb. Birds Austr., 
Vol. I., p. 548, 1865; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. II., p. 172, 1907; 
Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 99, 1908; Hill, Emu, Vol. X., p. 288, 1911 
(N.W.A.) ; Barnard, ib., Vol. XI., p. 28, 1911 (N.Q.); Hill, ib., Vol. XH., p. 260, 
1913 (N.T.); Macgillivray, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 180, 1914 (N.Q.); Barnard, ib., Vol. 
XIV., p. 49, 1914 (N.T.); H. L. White, ib., Vol. XVI., p. 229, 1917 (N.T.); Mac- 
gUUvray, ib., Vol. XVII., p. 207, 1918 (N.Q.); CampbeU, ib., Vol. XVIII., p. 186, 
1919 (N.T.). 
Philemon argenticeps Gray, Handl. Gen. Sp. Birds, Vol. I., p. 160, 1869; Ramsay, Proc. 
Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 190, 1878; Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IX., 
p. 272, 1884 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 13, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., 
p. 45, 1899 ; CampbeU, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 434, 1901. 
Philemon argenticeps argenticeps Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 422, Jan. 31st. 
1912 ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 291, 1913 ; id.. South Austr. Om., Vol. HI., p. 226. 
1918. 
Philemon argenticeps alexis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 422, Jan. 31st, 1912: 
Alexandra, Northern Territory; id.. List Birds Austr., p. 291, 1913. 
Philemon argenticeps melvillensis Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. I., pt. 2. p. 51, 
April 2nd, 1912 : MelviUe Island. 
Philemon argenticeps hempi Mathews, ib., pt. 4, p. 101, Sept. 18th, 1912 : Cape York, 
Queensland; id.. List Birds Austr., p. 292, 1913. 
Philemon argenticeps broomei Mathews, ib. ; Napier, Austral Avian Record, Vol. I., pt. 4, 
p. 101, Sept. 18th, 1912 : Napier Broome Bay, North-west Australia ; id., List Birds 
Austr., p. 292, 1913. 
Distribution. Northern Tropical Australia from North-west Australia to Cape York, 
Queensland. 
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