PTILOTIS FRENATA, Ramsay. 
Bridled Honey-eater. 
Ptilotis frenata, Ramsay, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 603. 
Justifying the remarks which I have made on Ptilotis flamstriatu, the present species is another of the 
recent additions to the family Meliphagidae in the Australian continent. I give the following extract from 
Mr. Ramsay’s article, as it comprises all that is at present known respecting the species : — 
“ Of this new species, for which I beg to propose the name of P. frenata, on account of the markings at 
the base of the bill and round the face, some few individuals were obtained, frequenting the Eucalypti 
while in blossom, near the margin of a swamp in the Cardwell district. 
“The birds were shot by my (then) collector, Mr. Broadbent, who is already well known as an 
enthusiastic and careful taxidermist. To Mr. Broadbent’s researches my collection is also indebted for the 
first specimen of Eopsaltria inornata, nov. sp. 
“ Description . — Whole of the upper surface dull brown; head, lores, and nape of neck blackish brown, 
the feathers having indistinct luuulate markings and a gloss of olive in certain lights ; a semi-bare space 
below the eye has a few minute buffy white feathers ; behind the eye a semilunar patcli of white feathers 
tipped with black, which, extending in a narrow line, almost encircles that organ. Eye-lashes black ; ear- 
coverts black; above them, immediately behind the eye, is a small tuft of bright wax-yellow feathers joining a 
large triangular patch of light greyish brown feathers on the side of the neck, which has the upper portion 
of it, nearest the ear-coverts, tinged with olive ; a narrow indistinct line of yellow on either side bounding the 
ear-coverts below, extending obliquely to the lower part of the chin, where, meeting in an angle, they form 
an indistinct yellow patch on the throat. Chin and remainder of the under surface dull brown, slightly 
darker in tint on the breast and sides of the neck, lighter on the centre of the abdomen and under tail- 
coverts ; across the chest are indistinct wavy lines of a darker tint, on the flanks indistinct lanceolate 
markings of the same tint. Under surface of the shoulders, inner margins of tertiaries, secondaries, and 
the basal portions of inner margins of the primaries light buff. The outer webs of the spurious wing- 
feathers, the tertiaries, and secondaries, with some of the primaries, are on the upper surface tinged with 
olive. Bill black, with the basal portion (except the eulmen) yellow. The gape, with a narrow fleshy 
appendage, yellow. Feet and tarsi dark brown. 
“Total length 8'5 inches; bill from angle of mouth U05 inch, from feathers at the nostrils 065, from 
forehead U05, height at nostrils 02, breadth 02 ; wing from flexure T05 ; tail 3 6; tarsus 035. 
“ Hub. Rockingham Bay. 
“ Sexes alike in plumage. One specimen, said to be a male, is considerably smaller in all its 
measurements, which are as follows : — 'Total length 7 5 inches ; wing 3-65 ; tail 3*25 ; bill from angle of 
the mouth 0‘95, from feathers at nostrils 0 6 inch, from forehead 0 - 9, height at nostril 0‘2, breadth 0'2.” 
My figures represent the species of the size of life. 
