Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 735. 
Family PTILONORHYNGHIDM. 
SERICULUS CHRYSOCEPHALUS. 
KEGENT-BIKD. 
(Plate 588.) 
Meliphaga ohrysocephala Lewin, Birds New Holland, pi. vi., 1808 : New South Wales. 
Meliphaga chrysocephala Lewin, Birds New Holland, pi. vi., 1808. 
King Honeysucker Lewin, Birds New South Wales, pi. 6, 1822. 
Golden-crowned Hone 3 ’^-eater Latham, Genera Hist. Birds, Vol. IV., p. 184, 1822. 
Oriolus regens Quoy et Gaimard, Voy. de “ I’Uranie et Physic.,” Zool., p. 105, Sept. 18th, 
1824; New South Wales. 
Paradiscea imperialis Sieber, Isis, 1826, Beylage No. 1; new name for “ Oriolus regens 
Lesch,” i.e., Q. & G. 
Melltphaga] avricapilla Stephens in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., Vol. XIV., pt. i., p. 262 (end), 1826: 
name for “ Golden-crowned Honeysucker Lewin, pi. 16, i.e., 6: Latham ante.” 
Sericvlus chryaocephalus Swainson, Zool. Joum., Vol. I., pt. 4, p. 478, Jan. 1825; Gould, 
Birds Austr., pt. xxvi. (Vol. IV., pi. 12), March 1st, 1847; Biggies, Omith. 
Austr., pt. xm., 1867. 
Meliphaga regia ” Lewin ” Voigt, Das Thierreich (Cuvier), Vol. I., p. 505 (pref. Easter), 
1831 : in sjmonymy of regens. 
Sericulus magnirostris Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. rv., App., p. 2, April Ist, 1838: 
“ Tasmania ” erTor=New South Wales. 
Sericulus melinus* Strickland, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. XI., p. 336, 1843; Gray, Genera 
Not TurduB melintia Latham. Index Omith. Suppl., p. xliv., 1801. 
Birds, Vol. I., p. 232, 1845; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 456, 1865; 
Ramsa}”, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 188, 1878; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus., Vol. VI., p. 395, 1881 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 11, 1888; Sharpe, 
Mon. Paradis., Vol. 2, pi. 27, 1891; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 22, 1899; 
Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 208, 1901; North, Austr. Mus. 
Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. I., p. 60, 1902 ; Coles, Emu, Vol. III., p. 187, 1904 (Q.); 
Gilbert, ib., Vol. X., p. 44, 1910 (N.S.W.); Shufeldt, ib., Vol. XV., p. 230, 1916 
(Eggs). 
Sericulus chryaocephalus Sharpe, Hist. Coll. Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist., Vol. II., p. 132, 1906; 
Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 106, 1908 ; Campbell, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 68, 
pi. XL, 1913 (Eggs); Gilbert, ib., p. 101 ; Campbell, ib., Vol. XIV., p. 173, 1915 
• Also spelt MeMinua. 
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