WHITE-NAPED HONEY-EATER. 
a chorus with their high-pitched * T-tee, t-tee, t-tee ’ notes. It was a pleasure 
to recline under a tree and watch their active movements while left alone; 
but they were often put to flight by the arrival of larger birds—Leatherheads, 
etc. As pointed out in the preceding species, M. albogularis is distinct from 
M. lunulatus. Amongst other specific distinctions, the naked space above 
and behind the eye is scarlet or orange in the latter bird, and in the former 
greenish-blue. These colours are constant in the respective species. In 
Central Queensland M. lunulatus is found in the ranges only, while M. 
albogularis is found on the lower forest country. [Regarding M. albogularis, 
found in Central Queensland, and the northern one, the former appears 
larger, brighter in colour, and more robust generally; also its note is much 
stronger and clearer. H. G. B(arnard).] ” 
As just pointed out, M. albogularis has not the naked space round the 
eye greenish-blue constantly, and I do not think that Cairns’ birds have this 
coloration for instance. 
A little later Campbell, discussing birds from the King River, Northern 
Territory, records under the name “ Mdithreptus albogularis Gould. One 
d, 2 $ $. A plentiful species in Gilbert’s time. Birds from North-west 
Australia ( subalbogularis Mathews) and Macarthur River (Gulf country) 
both appear to be similar to type-locality specimens, there being little or no 
difference in size or in coloration. Field observation points to lunulatus 
and albogularis being separate species. They are found in the same faunal 
locality and are not migrants. For further remarks see (what I have quoted 
above).” 
Here again Campbell does not give the naked space round the eye 
coloration, and the birds from North-west Australia (Derby) ( subalbogularis 
Mathews) have that “ whitish,” while birds from the Leichhardt River have 
it also “ white with faint greenish tinge,” neither “greenish-blue ” which 
Campbell quotes as the constant coloration in the species albogularis. I am 
therefore not giving albogularis specific rank at present. Forty years ago 
De Yis named a new species from Kimberley, mouth of the Norman River, 
Gulf of Carpentaria, Melithrcptus vinitinctus. He sent the type for examination 
to Dr. Sharpe at the British Museum, who recognised that it was an immature 
bird of the albogularis style. 
In my “ Reference List ” in 1912 I reduced chloropsis, vinitinctus and 
albogularis to subspecific rank under the species lunatus as well as my own 
Mdithreptus whitlocki which I had described from Wilson’s Inlet, South¬ 
west Australia, on account of its having the bare skin round the eye white 
both in summer and winter, i.e., the same colour as Derby and Leichhardt 
River birds classed under albogularis. I did not consider the very variable 
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