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Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 700. 
Family MELITHREPTIDM. 
TROPIDORHYNCHUS CORNICULATUS. 
FRIAR-BIRD. 
(Plate 656.) 
Merops CORNICULATUS Latham, Index Ornith., Vol. I., p. 276, (before Dec. 9th) 1790 : 
New South Wales. 
Merops cornicvlaiua Latham, Index Ornith., Vol. I., p. 276, 1790. 
Knob-fronted Bee-eater Wliite, Journal Voy. New South Wales, p. 190, pi. 16, 1790 ; 
Latham, Gen. Synops. Birds, Suppl. II., p. 151, 1801. 
Cowled Bee-eater Latham, t6., p. 155. 
Merops monachxis Latham, Index Ornith., Suppl., p. xxxiv., 1801 : New South Wales; 
based on Lambert drawing (Watling No. 87). 
Tropidorhynchus comiculatits Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., 
p. 324, 1827 ; Gould, Birds Austr., pt. n. (Vol. IV., pi. 58), March 1st, 1841 ; id., 
Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 545, 1865; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 
1875, p. 596 (Q.); Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral, p. 100, 1908; Cleland, Emu, 
Vol. IX., p. 226, 1910 (Food); Agnew, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 96, 1913 (Q.); Cheney, 
ib., Vol. XIV., p. 212, 1915 (Vic.); Campbell and Barnard, ib., Vol. XVII., p. 35, 
1917 (N.Q.); MacgUlivray, ib., p. 207, 1918 (N.Q.); Cleland, ib., Vol. XVIII., p. 283, 
1919 (N.S.W.); Kersey, ib., Vol. XIX., p. 52, 1919. 
Philemoncorniculatus Gray, Handl. Gen. Sp. Birds B.M., Vol. I,,p. 160,1869; Ramsay,Proc. 
Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. IL, p. 190, 1878; Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IX., 
p. 271, 1884 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 13, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., 
p. 45, 1899; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 432, 1901; Bemey, 
Emu, Vol. V., p. 76, 1905 (N.Q.); Batey, ib., Vol. VII., p. 9, 1907 (Vic.); Hill, ib., 
p. 20 (Vic.); Austin, ib., p. 31 (N.S.W.); North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat,, No. 1, 
Vol. IL, p. 168, 1907; Broadbent, Emu, Vol. X., p. 238, 1910 (N.Q.). 
Philemon cornicnlaUts corniculatus Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 422, 1912. 
Philemon corniculatus ellioti Mathews, ib., p. 423, Jan. 31st, 1912 : Mount Elliot, Towns- 
ville, North Queensland ; id.. Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 63, 1912 (Eggs). 
Tropidorhynchus corniculatus corniculatus Mathews, list Birds Austr., p. 292, 1913. 
Tropidorhynchus corniculatus ellioti Mathews, ib.\ id., South Austr. Om., Vol. II., p. 60, 
1915. 
Entomyzon cyanotis Wliite, Emu, Vol. XVIIL, p. 24, 1918 (see p. 147). 
Distribution. Queensland as far north as the Archer River; New South Wales and 
Victoria. 
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