Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 633. 
Family NECTARINIDjE. 
CYRTOSTOMUS FRENATUS. 
SUN-BIRD. 
(Plate 510.) 
[Nectarinia frenata Sal. Muller, Verb. Nat. Gescb. Land-en Volkenk., No. 6, p. 173, 
1843: Baie de Lobo, S.W. New Guinea. Extra-Limital.] 
Nectarinia australis Gould, Contr. Omith. (Jardine), 1850, p. (160) 106: Port Molle, 
Queensland. 
Nectarinia australis Gould, Contr. Omith. (Jardine), 1850, p. (160) 106; id., Proc. Zool. 
Soc. (Lond.), 1850, p. 201, Feb. 28th, 1851; Birds Austr., Suppl., pt. i., pi. 45, 
March 15th, 1851 ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 584, 1865; Ramsay, 
Ibis, 1S65, p. 85; id., Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1875, p. 598. 
Cyrtostomus australis Reichenbach, Handb. Scansores, p. 309, 1854. 
Cinnyris frenata* Shelley, Monogr. Nectar., p. 153, pi. 49, 1878 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. 
N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 191, 1878 ; Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IX., p. 85, 1884 ; 
Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 14, 1888; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 36, 1899; 
Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 344, 1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. 
Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. II., p. 205, 1907; Cornwall, Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 139, 1909; 
Macgillivray, ib., Vol. X., pp. 216-227, 1910 ; Broadbent, ib ., p, 239. 
Cyrtostomus frenatus Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 91, 1908 ; Barnard, Emu, Vol. XI., 
p. 28, 1911; Macgillivray, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 176, 1914; Campbell and Barnard, 
ib., Vol. XVII., p. 30, 1917; Macgillivray, ib., Vol. XVTI., p. 203, 1918; 
Campbell, ib., Vol. XX., p. 63, 1920 ; Cornwall, ib., Vol. XXI., p. 69, 1921. 
Cinnyris frenata australis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 390, 1912. 
Cinnyris frenata olivei Mathews, ib., p. 391, Jan. 31st, 1912 : Cairns, North Queensland. 
Cinnyris frenata macgillivrayi Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. I., pt. 4, p. 97, Sept. 
18th. 1912 ; Cape York, North Queensland. 
Cinnyris frenata australis Mathews, ib. 
Cyrtostomus frenatus macgillivrayi Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 258, 1913. 
Cyrtostomus frenatus australis Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. North Queensland only, from Cape York southward to MacKay. 
Adult male. General colour of the upper-surface dull old-gold-yellow, including the top 
of the head, sides of face, back, rump, upper tail-coverts, scapulars, upper wing- 
* Also spelt frenatus . 
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