240 MELIPHAGID^. 



rt, 6. [ d' $ ] ad. sk. Tiismania. Gould Collection. 



c. (S ad. sk. Tasmania. J. Gould, Esq. [C.]. 



d. Luui. sk. Tasmania. Ronald Gunu, Esq. [P.]. 

 e,f, (/. Ad. sk. [Tasmania.] J. B. Jukes, Esq. [C.]. 



/i. Ad. sk. [Tasmania.] Antarctic Expedition. 



(■, A-. Ad. sk. [S. Australia.] F. D. Godman and O. Sal- 



\in, Esqrs. [P.J. 



I. Ad. sk. [S. Australia.] Sir T. Mitchell [C.]. 



21. Ptilotis fasciogularis. 



Ptilotis fasciogularis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1851, p. 285 ; nl B. Austr. 

 Suppl. pi. 40 ; id. Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 507 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. 

 p. 156, no. 2020 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 189. 



Adult. Upper parts browu, with an olive shade, the feathers with 

 darker centres, especially on the head and hind neck ; wings and tail 

 light brown externally, strongly washed with olive-yellow ; a line 

 from the lores, through the eye, and down the sides of the neck 

 blackish brown; subocular region, ear- coverts, and part of the sides of 

 the neck bright yellow, passing into whitish towards the shoulders ; 

 on the hinder margin of the ear-opening a few white feathers ; chin, 

 cheeks, throat, and part of the fore neck freckled with brown, whitish, 

 and pale yellow, each feather being brown at the base and broadly 

 tipped with yellow ; chest uniform dusky browu ; rest of underparts 

 dingy yellowish white, each feather with a brownish central patch ; 

 edge of wing, under wing-coverts, and inner margin of quills ful- 

 vous yellow ; " iris lead-colour ; bill bluish black, with a yellow 

 gape; feet black " (Gould). Culmeu O'S inch, wing 3-75, tail 3-4, 

 tarsus 1. 



Bab. From Eockingham Bay to the Wide-Bay district. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Queensland (Cockerell). F. D. Godman and 0. Sal- 



vin, Esqrs. [P.]. 



c. 2 ad. sk. Port Cm-tis, Queensland, Voy. H.M.S. 'Alert.' 



April (Br. Copjnnge/-). 



d. Ad. St. Moreton Bay. J. Gould, Esq. (Type of 



species.) 



e. 2 ^d. sk. Moreton Bay (Strange). Gould Collection. 

 /. Ad. sk. Moreton Bay. Gould Collection. 



22. Ptilotis leucotis. 



White-eared Honey-eater, Leicin, B. New S. TV. pi. 20. 



White-eared Thrush, Lath. Gen. Syn. Siqjjil. ii. p. 373. 



Tiudus leucotis, Lath. Ind. Orn. p. xhv (17'J0j. 



Meliphaga leucotis, Viy. ^ Horsf. Linn. Trans, xv. p. 314 (1826) ; 

 Temm. PI. Col. 435 ; Jard. ^- Selby, III. Orn. pi. 35. fig. 2 ; Gray, 

 Gen. B. i. p. 122 ; id. Hand-l. B. i. p. 156, no. 2022. 



Ptilotis leucotis, Gould, B. Austr. iv. pi. 36 ; id. Handb. B. Austr. 



