MATHEWS— Birds of North and North-West Australia. 225 



Birds of the 

 North and North-West of Australia. 



From Skins and Notes by the late Capt. T. H. Bowyer-Bower. 



By Gregory M. Mathews, F.R.S.E., F.L.S., M.B.O.U., etc. 



No. 16. 

 280. Lichbnostomus plumulus PLANAsi. Yellow-necked 



Honey-eater. 



Ptilotus planasi (Campbell). Emu. Vol. X., p. 168, 1912. 

 Napier, Broome Bay, North- West Australia. 



No. 07— $ . Length, 5.7 inches (5/6/86). 



Irides, dark brown; bill, brown; basal portion of lower 

 mandible, flesh colour; legs and feet, fleshy brown. 



280. Ptilotula flavescens flavescens. Yellow-tinted Honey- 

 eater. 



PHloiis flaviscens (Gould), Proc. Zool. Soe. (Lond. ). 1839, 

 p. 144, 1840. Derby, North-West Australia. 



No. 264— 9 . Length, 5.6 inches (16/7/86). 



No. 294— $ . Length, 6.1 inches (8/9/86). 



No. 420.— 9 . Length, 5.7 inches (21/10/86) . 



No. 310— 9 . Length, 5.3 inches (24/7/86). 



No. 513. Length, 5.4 inches (4/11/86.) 



228. Stomiopera UNicoLOR darbiski. Western White-gaped 



Honey-eater. 



Ptilotis unicolor darbiski (Mathews), Nov. Zool., Vol. 

 XV III., p. 413, 1912. Fitzrov River, North-west Australia. 



No. 230—9 . Length, 7.8 inches (29/8/86). 



Irides, grey ; bill, dark brown ; gape and space on the upper 

 mandible, yellowish white; legs and feet, lead colour. 



No. 239— $. (29/8/86). 



aj 261—9 • Length, 7.8 inches (2/9/86). 



No. 277— 9 . Length, 8.2 inches (5/9/86). 



No. 278— 9 . Length, 8.1 inches ( 5/9/86) . 



Xo. 28S— $ . Length, 8.2 inches (7/9/86). 



287. Myzantha flavigula lutea. Yellow Minah. 



^ Myzantha lutea, (Gould), Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1839, p. 

 144. 1840. Derby, North-West Australia. 



No. 40P,— $ . " Length, 9. inches (13/10/86). 



Irides, bluish slate, shaded next the pupil with brown ; eye- 

 lid, brown, naked skin under and behind the eye of a bluish 

 tinge anteriorly, then shaded with yellow and posteriorly be- 

 coming greenish white; bill, pale yellow, becoming lighter at 



