LIST OF BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
CCCXXXIV. Genus LALAGE. 
Lalage Boie Isis, 1826, Heft X., col. 973 (October). Type (by monotypy): Turdus orientals Gmelin=7Wtw 
niger Forster. 
Erucivora Swainson, Fauna Bor. Amer. Birds, p. 483, ” 1831 "=February 1832. Type (by monotypy): T, 
orientalis Gmelin = T. niger Forster. 
407. LALAGE TRICOLOR. CATERPILLAR-EATER. 
Gould, Vol. II., pi. 63 (pt. xxxiv.), Dec. 1st, 1848. Mathews, Vol. IX., pt, 3, pi. 418 June 
20th, 1921. 
Ceblepyris tricolor Swainson, Zool. Journ., Vol. I., pt. iv., p. 467, Jan. 1825 : " Australia " = New South Wales 
(Sydney). 
Ceblepyrishumeralis Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., App., p. 2, April 1st, 1838 = New South Wales (Sydney). 
Lalage tricolor indistineta Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 328, Jan. 31st, 1912 : Wyndham, North west 
Australia. 
Kama leucomela mayi Ashby, South Austr. Oraith., Vol. I., pt. 4, p. 27, Oct. 1st, 1914: Pine Creek, Northern 
Territory. 
Distribution. Australia. Not Tasmania (accidental). 
CCCXXXV. Genus KARUA. 
Karua Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., pts. 2-3, p. 59, Oct. 23rd, 1913. Type (by original designation): 
Campephaga leucomela Vigors and Horsfield. 
408. KARUA LEUCOMELA. PIED CATERPILLAR-EATER. 
Gould, Vol. II., pi. 61 (pt. xxxi.), June 1st, 184S; Vol. II., pi. 62 (pt, xxxiv.), Dec. 1st, 1848. 
Mathews, Vol. IX., pt. 3, pi. 418, June 20th, 1921. 
Campephaga leucomela Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 215, Feb. 17th, 1627: 
Broad Sound, Queensland. 
Campephaga (rufiventris) Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. I., p. 283, June 1846 : based on Voy. P61e Sud., pi. 11: Raffles 
Bay, Northern Territory. 
Lalage leucomela yorki Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVHL. p. 329, Jan. 31st. 1912 : Cape York, North Queensland 
Lalage leucomela gouldi Mathews, ib. : (Alligator River) Northern Territory'. 
Distribution. Tropical Northern Australia and down the east coast into New South Wales. 
Family SPHECOTHERHLE. 
CCCXXXVI. Genus SPUECOTHERES. 
Sphecotheres Vieillot, Analyse nouv. Ornith., p. 42, April 14th, 1816. Type (by monotypy): S. viridit Vieillot. 
Picnoramphus Rosenborg, Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind., Vol. XXIX., p. 143, 18G6. Type (by monotypy): P. cucullatui 
Rosonborg. 
409. SPHECOTHERES VIEILLOTI. FIG-BIRD. 
Gould, Vol. IV., pi. 16 (pt. xxx.), March 1st, 1848. Mathews, Vol. IX., pt. 4, pi. 419, 
Oct. 19th, 1921. *' 
Sphecotheres vieilloti Vigors and HoreGeld, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV.. p. 215, Feb. 17th, 1827: Keppd 
Bay, Queensland. 
Sphecotheres viresccns Jardino and Selby, Illus. Ornith., Vol. II., pi. 79, July 1829 : New South Wales. 
Not Sphecotheres viresccns Vieillot, Gal. d'Oiseaux, pi. 147, 1823. 
Sphecothera grisca Lesson, Trait6 d'Orn., livr. 5, p. 351 (Dee.), 1830 : " Aux Terre Australcs ” (part only). 
Lanius asturinus Lesson, ib. 
Sphecotheres canicollis Swainson, Anim. in Monag., p. 320, Dee. 31st, 1837 : " Australia " - New South Wales. 
Sphecotheres maxillaris Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. I., p. 231, 1845, and recent authors, but not Turdus maxiSarit 
Latham, Index Ornith., Suppl., p. xliii., 1801. Cf. Austral Av. Rec., Vol. III., pt. 6, p. 139, pi. 6,19IS. 
Sphecotheres avstrali.8 Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xxx. (Vol. IV., pi. 15), March 1st, 1848 : Queensland. 
Sphecotheres maxillaris boweri Mathews, Austral Av. Roc., Vol. III., pt. 5 p. 63, April 7th, 1916: Cairns, North 
Queensland. r r r 
Distribution. Eastern Australia from Cairns, North Queensland, to Now South Wales. 
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