Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 739. 
Family PARADISEIDM. 
MATHEWSIELLA MAGNIFICA. 
MAGNIFICENT RIFLE-BIRD. 
(Plate 592.) 
[Falcinellus magnieicus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat,, nouv. ed., Vol. XXVIII., 
p. 167, (about March) 1819 : New Guinea. Extra-limi tab] 
Craapedophora 'tnagnifica claudia Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. III., pt. 4, p. 72, 
July 21st, 1917 : Claudie River, North Queensland. 
Ptiloris mctgnifica Gould, in Jardino’s Contr. Orn. 1850, p. 100; fd., Birds Austr. 
Suppl., pi. 51 (pt. 1), March 16th, 1851. 
Craspedophora magnifica Gould, Handb, Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 595, 1865; Hall, Key 
Birds Austr., p. 9, 1899. 
Ptiloris alherii Elliot, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1871, p. 683, Oct. 1st; Cape York, North 
Not PtUomis alberti Gray, Handl. Gen. Sp. Birds B.M., Vol. I., p. 105, I869=3f. m. magnifica, 
Queensland ; Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 4, Vol. VIU., p. 365, 1871; Sharpe, 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. III., p. 166, 1877 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. 
Birds, Vol. I., p. 76, 1901 ; Macgillivray, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 184, 1914; id., ib., 
Vol. XVIII., p. 211, 1918. 
Craspedophora alberti Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 11, 1888; Sharpe, Mon. Birds 
Parad., Vol. I., pi. 4, 1897 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 9, 1899 ; Le Souef, Ibis, 
1897, p. 394; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. I., p. 29, 1901; Mathews, 
Handl. Birds Austral., p. 106, 1908; Macgillivray, Emu, Vol. X., p. 230, 1910; 
Barnard, ih., Vol. XI., p. 30. 1914. 
Ptiloris magnifica alberti Rothschild, Ibis, 1911, p. 366 ; Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIIL, 
p. 441, 1912. 
Craspedophora magnifica alberti Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 312, 1913. 
Craspedophora tnagni/ica claudia Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. III., p. 72, 1917. 
Craspedophora magnifica yorki Mathews, ib., Vol. V., pt. i., p. 8, July 17th, 1922 : Cape 
York, Queensland. 
Matheiosiella magnifica Mathews, ib., Vol. V., pts. 2-3, p. 42, 1923. 
Mathewsiella magnifica magnifica Matliews, ib. 
MathewsielUi magnifica claudia Mathews, ib. 
Mathewsiella magnifica yorki Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. North Queensland from Cape York to Claudie River. 
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