Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 724. 
mMETA SAGITTATA. 
ORIOLE. 
Family ORIOLIBM. 
(Plate 578.) 
COBAOIAS SAGiriATA Latham, Index Ornith, Suppl., p. xxvi., (after May SOthl 1801. 
New South Wales. ^ 
CoTctcias Sdgittutd Lathamj Index Ornith. Suppl., p, xxvi 1801 
Gracuki viridis Latham, ih., p. xxvm., (after May 30th) 1801 New South Wales ; Jlathews 
Austral Avian Record, Vol. V., pt. i., p. 26, pi. (2), 1922. 
Striated Roller Latham, Gen. Synops. Birds, Suppl. II., p. 122, 1801. 
Green Grakle Latham, ib., p. 129. 
Coracias striata Shaw, Gen. Zool., Vol. VII., p. 400, 1809 : New South Wales. 
Not CoramcLa striata Gmelin, Syst. Nat., Vol. I., p. 3S1, 17S8. 
Oriolus variegahis VieiUot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., nouv. ed., Vol. XVIII., p. 196 
Dec. 27th, 1817 : “ Nouvelle HoUande ”=New South Wales. 
Not Oriolua variegatua Bechstein, Kurze Uebers. Vogel, p. 127, 1811. 
Oriolus viridis VieiUot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., nouv. ed., Vol. XVIII., p. 197 isi' 
Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xxi. (Vol. IV., pi. 13), Dec. 1st, 1845; Biggies’ Ornith 
Austr., p. XVI., 1868; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. III., p. 212, 1877- Hall 
Key Birds Austr., p. 10, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds. M I 
p. 81, 1901; Batey, Emu, Vol. VII., p. 5, 1907 (Vic.); Ingle, ih., Vol. X.’ p. 122 
1910 (Vic.); Cheney, ib., Vol. XIV., p. 213, 1915 (Vic.); Ramsay, ih., Vo’l. XIX 
p. 6, 1919 (N.S.W.). 
Mtmetes viridis King, Survey Intertrop. Coasts Austr., Vol. II., p. 419, “ 1827”=April 
1826. 
Mimeta viridis Vigors and Horsfiold, Trans. Lima. Soc. (Lond), Vol. XV., p. 326, 1827- 
Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 462, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc! 
(Lond.), 1875, p. 593; id., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 188, 1878; id., 
Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 11, 1888. 
3Iimeia meruloides Vigom and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.); Vol. XV., p. 327, 
Feb. 17th, 1827 : New South Wales. 
Oriolus affinis Gould, Birds Austr., Introd., 8vo, p. 57, Aug. 1st, 1848: Port Essington, 
Northern Territory ; id.. Birds Austr., Folio, Vol. I, Introd., p. Lm., Bee. 1st, 1818; 
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