Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 731. 
Family PTILONORHYNCHIDM. 
AILURCEDUS AIELANOTUS. 
SPOTTED CAT-BIRD. 
(Plate 583.) 
[Ptilonorhynchtts MELAIJOTIS Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1858, p. 181, July 13th: 
Aru Islands. Extra-limital.] 
Muroedus macvlosus Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1874, p. 601, April 1st, 1875 • 
Rockingham Bay, Queensland. 
JElurcedua* mactdosus Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1874, p. 601; id., ib., 1875, p. 591 - 
id., Proc. linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 187, 1878; Gould, Birds’New’ Guinea! 
pt. I. (Vol. I., pi. 38), Dec. 1 st, 1875 ; Sharpe, Gat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. VI., p. 385, 
1881; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 11 , 1888 ; Sharpe, Mon. Paradis.,’Vol. 2 ! 
pi. 35, 1891 ; HaU, Key Birds Austr., p. 21 , 1899 ; CampbeU, Nests and Egg^ Austr! 
Birds, Vol. I., p. 195, 1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1 , Vol. L, p. 73 , 
1902 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 105, 1908 ; Jackson, Emu, Vol. VIE.! 
p. 238, pi. XXIV., 1909 ; Shufeldt, ib., Vol. XI., p. 200, 1912 ; Campbell and 
Barnard, ib., Vol. XVII., p. 36, 1917 (N.Q.) ; Macgillivray, ib., p. 210, 1918 (N.Q.). 
AUurosdus melanotua macvlosus Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 439, 1912- a 
List Birds Austr., p. 310, 1913 ; id.. South Austr. Om., Vol. II., p. 61, 1916, 
AUuroedus melaiwtus fairfazi Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. II., pt. 7, p. 132, 
Jan. 28th, 1915 : Bellenden Ker, Queensland. 
Distribetion. North Queensland. 
AduU female. Feathers of the top of the head and neck rusty-bufi, each feather margined 
with browmsh-buff; wing-coverts, back, mantle, rump and upper taU-coverts 
grass-green, slightly glossed ; innermost secondaries grass-green tipped with wlute • 
primaries and outer secondaries brownish-black with the entire outer web grass^ 
green, central pair of tail-feathers uniform dull grass-green, outer pairs of tail- 
feathers slightly glossed on the outer web with dull green ; second and tliird pairs 
with the entire outer web green ; fourth and fifth pairs with the green colour 
extending on to the inner web, all but the central pair tipped at the extremity of 
both webs with white ; lores dusky ; ear-coverts brownish-black, margined above 
^th whitish ; chin dusky ; sides of the face, throat, chest, breast and sides of the 
body 3 ellowish-white, bordered with dull green and rufous, producing a scaled 
* Also spelt Ailuradus, 
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