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back of the neck black ; ear-coverts dark grey ; below the 

 ear-coverts a stripe of bright yellow ; throat and under surface 

 yellow, becoming paler as it approaches the vent, each feather 

 with a stripe of brown down the centre. 



Total length 8 inches ; bill 1 ; wing 4 ; tail 3f ; tarsi 1. 



Sp. 309. PTILOTIS FASCIOGULARIS, Gould. 



Fasciated Honey-eater. 

 Ptilotis fasciogularis, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc, part xix. p. 285. 



Ptilotis fasciogularis, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., Supplement, 

 pi. 



It is pleasing to record for the first time a species so well 

 marked as the present, and which differs from the other 

 members of its genus, in the distinct bars of pale yellow and 

 brown which occupy the throat and fore part of the neck. All 

 the specimens that have yet come under my notice were sent 

 to me a few years since by Strange, who collected them on the 

 low swampy islands lying off the eastern coast of Australia, 

 northward of Moreton Bay ; they comprise examples of both 

 sexes, ascertained by dissection, and the only difference between 

 them consists, as is usual with the other members of the 

 genus, in the smaller size of the female. 



Por a Ptilotis this is a large and robust species, equalling 

 in size the P. sonora, to which it has a close afiinity. 



All the upper surface, wings, and tail olive-brown, the 

 feathers of the head and back with darker centres, and the 

 primaries and tail-feathers narrowly margined externally with 

 wax-yellow ; lores and a streak down the side of the head 

 from the posterior angle of the eye blackish-brown; ear- 

 coverts pale yellow ; on each side of the neck a patch of yellow- 

 ish-white ; feathers of the throat brownish-black, each bordered 

 with pale yellow, presenting a fasciated appearance ; breast 

 blackish-brown ; under surface striated with brown and buff, 



