Order PASSERIFORMES. 
Family PTILONORHYNCHID^. 
No. 729. 
SCENOPOEETES DENTIROSTRIS. 
TOOTH-BILLED BOWER-BIRD. 
(Plate 582.) 
ScENOPCEUS DENTIROSTRIS Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1875, p. 591, April 1st, 
1876: 4,000 feet up, on Bellenden Ker Range, North Queensland. 
Scenofosus dentirostris Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond) 1875, p. 591, 1876; id., Proc. 
T.inn Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 188, 1878 ; Gould, Birds New Guinea, pt. x. (Vol. I., 
pi. 43), Sept. Ist., 1879; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. VI., p. 394, 1881 ; 
Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 11, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 22, 1899; 
North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. I., p. 68, 1902 ; (Cornwall, Emu, Vol. II., 
p. 223, 1903 (N.Q.)); id., Vol. III., p. 188, pi. xi., 1904 (N.Q.); Smith, ib., Vol. V., 
p. 211, 1906. 
Scenopoeetes dentirostris Coues, Auk, Vol. VIII., p. 115, Jan. 1891; Rothschild, Parad. 
Tien., Leif. 2, p. 8, 1898 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 105, 1908 ; Jackson, 
Emu, Vol. Vin., pp. 225-279, pis. xxi.-ni., xxxn.-iv., xxxvm., 1909 ; Green, ib., 
Vol. IX., p. 247, 1909; H. L. White, ib., p. 265; Jackson, ib., Vol. X., p. 81, 
1910 ; Broadbent, ib., p. 238; Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 438, 1912; 
id.. List Birds Austr., p. 309, 1913; id.. South Austr. Orn., Vol. II., p. 61, 1915; 
Campbell, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 68, 1913 (Eggs); North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., 
No. 1, Vol. IV., p. 415, 1914; Campbell and Barnard, Emu, Vol. XVII., p. 36, 
1917. 
Tectonornis dentirostris Sharpe, Mon. Paradis., Vol. 2, pi. 40, 1891. 
Scenopoeetes dentirostris minor Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. II., pt. 7, p. 132, 
Jan. 28th, 1915; Johnstone River, North Queensland. 
Scenopoeetes dentirostris dentirostris Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. North Queensland (Bellenden Ker Range district). 
Adult male. Entire upper-sinface of the body, including the wing-coverts and secondaries, 
brownish-ohve; wings brownish-black, with the outer web brownish-olive; tail 
dull brownish-olive, indistinctly rayed with brownish-black; lores dusl^; cheeks 
and ear-coverts dull olive-brown with buff shaft-stripes; throat and sides of the 
face brownish-white; remainder of the under-surface of the body creamy-white, 
each feather margined all round with deep brownish-ohve, producing a streaked 
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