Order PASSERIFORMES . 
Family ME LI THREPTI DM 
No. 635. 
MELITHREPTUS GULARIS. 
BLACK-CHINNED HONEY-EATER. 
(Plate 512.) 
Hjematops GULARIS Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. I., pi. (17), Jan. 1st, 1837 : Interior 
New South Wales. 
Hcematops gularis Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. I., pi. (17), 1837 ; id ., Proc. Zool. 
Soc. (Lond.), 1836, p. 144, June 27th, 1837. 
Melithreptus gularis Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xx. (Vol. IV., pi. 71), Sept. 1st, 1846; id 
Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 566, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 
1875, p. 597 (N.Q.) ; id., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 190, 1878; Gadow, ^ 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IX., p. 205, 1884; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, 
p. 14, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 39, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. 
Birds, Vol. I., p. 363, 1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. *, Vol. II., p. 193, 
1907 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 92, 1908 ; Howe, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 233, 
1910 (Vic.) ; Broadbent, ib. } Vol. X., p. 239, 1910 (N.Q.); Ashby, ib. y Vol. XI., 
p. 254, 1912 (S.A.) ; Cleland, ib., Vol. XII., p. 15, 1912 (Food); Ashby, ib., Vol. 
XVI., p. 233, 1917 (S.A.) ; Gilbert, ib ., Vol. XIX., p. 28, 1919 (N.S.W.). 
Melithreptus gularis gularis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 392, 1912; id ., List 
Birds Austr., p. 260, 1913. 
Melithreptus gularis loftyi Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 392, Jan. 31st, 1912: 
Mount Lofty, South Australia ; id ., List Birds Austr., p. 260, 1913; S. A. White, 
South Austr. Omith., Vol. I., pt. 2, p. 8, 1914. 
Distribution. New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland. 
Adult male. Entire top of head, lores, sides of face, and hind-neck black with a semi¬ 
circular band of white from the sides of the crown across the nape; mantle and 
upper tail-coverts lemon-yellow; back and scapulars yellowish-olive; upper 
wing-coverts blackish-brown with pale margins to some of the feathors ; llight-quills 
similar with whitish margins on the basal portion of the inner-webs; tail also 
blackish-browm with yellowish margins to some of the feathers on the outer-webs; 
chin dusky-black with hair-like tips to some of the feathers ; fore-neck and breast 
drab-grey ; abdomen, sides of body, thighs, and under tail-coverts fawn-grey; 
axillaries and under wing-coverts pale bull; under-surface of flight-quills hair- 
brown with bully-white margins ; lower aspect of tail also hair-brown. Eyes 
light brown, orbits bright duck-egg green, feet and legs flesh-colour. Total length 
144 mm. ; culmen 12, wing 90, tail 64, tarsus 22. Figured. Collected on Mt. 
Lofty, South Australia, on the 24th of July, 1911, and is the type of Melithreptus 
gularis lofti. 
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