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Under the name " Meliphaga atricapilla Temm." there 

 appeared in the Plan. Color., 56e livr., pi. 335, fig. 1, 1825, a 

 bird, about which was written by Temminck : " Ce Philedon 

 est mentionne par Latham, Syn. Supp. 2, page 167, sous le 

 nom de Certhia atricapilla. II est essentiel de dire qu'on 

 reconnait a la courte notice de 1'auteur anglais, l'oiseau qui 

 nous occupe ; mais il ne fait pas mention de la bande blanche 

 tres caracteristique placee sur 1'occiput, j'aurais conserve 

 quelque donte sur l'identite de notre espece avec celle de 

 Tauteur anglais si je n'avais vu a Londres le sujet, etiquete 

 de la main de Latham, dans la collection de M. Bullock." 



Jardine and Selby did not agree with Temminck, and 

 therefore figured two birds on pi. cxxxiv. of the Illus. 

 Ornith., Vol. III., 1835. Figure 1 was named " Meliphaga 

 atricapilla nobis. Black-headed Honey Eater (not including 

 var. A), Lath., Gen. Hist., IV., p. 175. Certhia atricapilla 

 Lath., Ind. Orn., Sup. XXXVII." 



Fig. 2 was determined as " Meliphaga lunulata Vigors and 

 HoTsfie[d= 31eliphaga atricapilla Temm., pi., col. 335, fig. 1." 



An explanation was provided : " The two birds which we 

 have now figured appear to be involved in some obscurity 

 with regard to each other. The lower figure, bearing the 

 synonymy of Temminck's PI. Coloriees, is referred by that 

 ornithologist to Latham's Black-headed Honey Eater, with 

 which we disagree, as it entirely wants the lunulated band 

 on the hind head ; and our bird at Fig. 2 also disagrees with 

 Dr. Latham's, in being entirely white on the throat and all 

 its under parts. In this state, then, we have marked some 

 of our synonymy with a doubt, and have endeavoured to 

 give as correct a representation as possible of the two birds 

 before us." 



Later, Strickland, Gould and Gray worked through the 

 Lambert Drawings, and Gray recognising a painting of a bird 

 purporting to be Certhia atricapilla Latham, wrote in the 

 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. XL, p. 191, 1843 : 



" Certhia atricapilla Latham —Certhia lunulata Shaw— 

 Meliphaga lunulata V. & H. = Gym?wphrys torqnatus Swainson : 



