Order PASSERIFORMES. Family PTILONORHYNCHIDM. 
No. 728. 
PTILONORHYNCHUS VIOLACEUS. 
SATIN BOWER-BIRD. 
(Plate 581.) 
Pyerhocobax vtolaceus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., nouv. ed., Vol. VI., p. 569, 
Dec. 14th, 1816 : New South Wales. 
Pyrrhocorax molaceus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., nouv. ed., Vol. VI., p. 569, 1816. 
Ptilonorhynchus holosericeus Kuhl, Beitr. Vergl. Anat., p. 150, (pref. April 7th) 1820 : 
ex Robert Brovui MS. : Port Hacking, New South Wales; Gould, Birds Austr., 
pt. IV. (Vol. IV., pi. 10), Sept. 1st, 1841; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 442, 
1865; Ramsay, Pi’oc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 187, 1878; Campbell, Emu, 
Vol. XIII., p. 68, pi. XI., 1913 (Eggs); Agnew, ib., p. 97 (Q.); S. A. White, ib., 
Vol. XIV., p. 144, 1915 (MaUee); Campbell, ib., p. 174, 1916 (N.Q.); Ramsay, ib., 
Vol. XV., p. 48, pi. X., 1916 ; Cook, ib., p. 53 (Vic.); Chisholm, ib., Vol. XVI., p. 54, 
1916 ; S. A. White, ib., Vol. XIX., p. 220, 1919 (Q.). 
Corvus sqmmvlosm “ Illiger ” Kulil, Bertr. Vergl. Anat., p. 150, (pref. April 7th) 1820, 
in synonymy of holosericeus. 
Indigo Crow Latham, Con. Hist. Birds, Vol. III., p. 36, 1822 : New South Wales. 
Ptilonorhynchus niger Stephens in Shaw’s Gen. Zook, Vol. XIV., pt. i., p. 72 (end), 1826 : 
New HoUand=New South Wales; based on Satin Grakle Latham. 
Ptilonorhynchus violaceus Stephens, ib. : “ South Sea Islands ”=New South Wales. 
Kitta holosericea Temminck et Laugier, Planch. Color d’Ois., Vol. IV., livr. 67, pi. 395, 
1826. 
Ptilonorhynchus nmcleayii Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 263, 
Feb. 17th, 1827 : (Port Hacking) New South Wales (same bird as Kuhl described). 
Ptilonorhynchus squamvlosus Wagler, Syst. Av. Ptilono., sp. 2, (Oct.) 1827 : New South 
Wales. 
Ptilonorhynchus raumsleyi Diggles, Omith. Austr., pt. xv., 1867 : Brisbane, Queensland 
(aberration or hybrid); Gould, Suppl. Birds Austr., No. v., p. 43, 1865. 
Ptilonorhynchus violaceus Elliot, Monogr. Parad., pi. xxvm., 1873; Sharpe, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus., Vol. VI., p. 381, 1881 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 11, 1888; 
Sharpe, Mon. Paradis., Vol. 2, pt. 19, 1891; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 21, 1899 ; 
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