Order PASSERIFORMES . 
No. 634. 
Family MEL1THREFTIDM. 
MELITHREPTUS LUNATUS. 
WHITE-NAPED HONEY-EATER. 
(Plate 611.) 
Certhia lunata Vieillot, Oiseaux Dores, Vol. II., p. 122, pi. 61, 1802 ; ex Shaw MS.: 
New South Wales. 
Certhia lunata Vieillot, Oiseaux Dores, Vol. II., p. 122, pi. 61, 1802; Bechstein, Kurze. 
Uebers. Vogel, p. 196 (pref. April 12th, 1810), 1811; Shaw, Gen. Zool., Vol. VIII., 
pt. i., p. 224=242, 1811. 
Melithreptus albicollis Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., nouv. ed., Vol. XIV., p. 325, 
Sept. 13th, 1817 : Nouvelle Hollande in Mus. Paris coll. Peron and Lesueur= 
New South Wales ; Pucheran, Archiv. Mus. d’Hist. Nat. Paris, Vol. VII., p. 348, 
1855. 
Melithreptus albicapillus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., nouv. ed., Vol. XIV., p. 329, 
Sept. 13th, 1817; ex Temminck MS. : Nouvelle Hollande=New South Wales. 
Melliphaga torquata Swainson, Zool. Ulus., Ser. I., pi. 129, (Nov.) 1822 : New South Wales. 
Black-crowned Honeysucker Lewin, Birds New South Wales, pi. 24, 1822. 
Meliphaga atricapilla Temminck and Laugier, Planch. Color. d’Ois., 56 e livr. (Vol. III., 
pi. 335, f. 1), April 16th, 1825 : New South Wales (probably based on same bird 
as Vieillot named albicapillus above). 
Not— 
Certhia atricapilla Latham, Index Omith. Suppl., p. xxxvii, 1801, which is a species of Melithreptus. 
Meliphaga lunulata Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 315, 1827. 
Certhia lunulata “ Shaw,” id., ib . 
Hcematops lunulatus Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. i., pi. (17), 1837. 
Gymnophrys torquatus Swainson, Classif. Birds, Vol. II., p. 327, 1837. 
Melithreptus lunulatus Gray, List Genera Birds, p. 16, 1840 ; Gould, Birds Austr., pt. 
xxx. (Vol. IV., pi. 72), March 1st, 1848; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 568, 
1865; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 190, 1878; Gadow, Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IX., p. 204, 1884; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 14, 
1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 38, 1899; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. 
Birds, Vol. I., p. 359, 1901; Batey, Emu, Vol. VII., p. 9, 1907 (Vic.); Ingle, ib., 
Vol. X., p. 124, 1910 (Vic.); S. A. White, ib ., Vol. XIV., p. 143, 1915 (Mallacoota); 
Cheney, ib., p. 211 (Vic.); Purnell, ib., Vol. XV., p. 43, 1915 (Vic.); Campbell 
and Barnard, ib., Vol. XVII., p. 30, 1917 (Q.); Le Souef and Macpherson, ib., Vol. 
XX., p. 90, 1920 (N.S.W.). 
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