Order PAS8ERIF0BME8. 
No. 726. 
Family BIORVRIBM. 
NOTOCHIBIA BRACTEATA. 
SPANGLED DRONGO. 
(Plate 580.) 
Dicrttrus bracteatus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1842, p. 132, Feb. 1843: “New 
South Wales Queensland. 
Dicrurus hracieatus Gould, Proc, Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1842, p. 132, 1843; id., Birds Austr., 
pt. XX. (Vol. II., pi. 82), Sept. 1st, 1845; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, 
Vol. L, p. 85, 1902. 
Dicrurus halicassnis {nec Liiine) Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., 
p. 211, 1827. 
Balic4%8sus bracteatus Bonaparte, Comptes. Rendus Acad. Sci. Paris, Vol. XXXVIII., 
p. 539, 1854. 
Chibia bracteata Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 235, 1865; Sharpe, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus., Vol III., j). 236, 1877; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., 
182, 1878; id.. Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 5, 1888; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 10, 
1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 85, 1901; Le Souef, Emu, 
Vol. II., p. 88, 1902 (N.T.); Cochrane, i6., Vol. III., p. 49, 1903 (N.Q.); Cornwall, 
i6., Vol. VII., p. 173, 1908 (Q.) ; Banfield, i6., p. 178; Mathews, Handl. Birds 
Austral, p. 104, 1908 ; Broadbent, Emu, Vol X., p. 236, 1910 (N.Q.) ; Hill, i6., 
p. 290, 1911 (N.W.A.); Barnard, i6., Vol XI., j). 29, 1911 (N.Q.); Cleland, i6., 
Vol. XII., p, 18, 1912 (Food); Campbell, i6., Vol. XIII., p. 69, 1912 (Eggs); Mac- 
gillivray, i6., p. 183, 1914 (N.Q.). 
Dicrurus bracteatus bracteattis Mathews, Nov. Zool, Vol. XVIII., p. 437, Jan. 31st, 1912. 
Dicrurus bracteatus baileyi Mathews, i&. : Alligator River, Northern Territory. 
Dicruropsis bracteatus bracteatus Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 307, 1913; id.. South 
Austr. Orn., Vol II., p. 61, 1915. 
Dicruropsis bracteatus baileyi Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 307, 1913; id.. Austral Av. 
Rec., Vol. I., p. 64, 1912 (Nest and Eggs). 
Dicruropsis bracteatus L’Ombrain, Emu, Vol. XVIII., p. 154, 1918. 
Distribution. Northern Australia, ranging down the east coast into New South Wales, 
but on the west only as far south as Napier Broome Bay. 
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