Order PASSERIFORMES. Family MELITHREPTIDJE. 
No. 637. 
MELITHREPTUS VALIDIROSTRIS. 
STRONG-BILLED HONEY-EATER. 
(Plate 512.) 
H/EMAtops validirostrxs Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. i., pi. (17), Jan. 1st, 1837: 
Tasmania. 
Sturnus virescens Wagler, Syst. Avium Sturnus, sp. 5 (before Oct.), 1827 : Van Diemens 
Land. 
Not—• 
Melithreptus virescens Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., nouv. od., Vol. XIV., p. 329, 1817. 
Hcematops validirostris Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. I., Jan. 1837 ; id., Proc. Zool. 
Soc. (Lond.), 1836, p. 144, June 1837. 
Eidopsarus bicinetus Swainson, Classif. Birds, Vol. II. , p. 32, July 1837 ; Anim. in Menag., 
p. 344, Dec. 1837 : Tasmania. 
Melithreptus virescens Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. I., p. 128, 1846. 
Melithreptus validirostris Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xix. (Vol. IV., pi. 70), June 1st, 1845; 
id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 565, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 
Vol. II., p. 190, 1878; Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IX., p. 206, 1884; 
Legge, Papers Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1886, p. 240, 1887 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. 
Birds, p. 14, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 39, 1899; Campbell, Nests and 
Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 364, 1901; Littler, Emu, Vol. II., p. 169, 1902; 
A. G. Campbell, ib. t p. 207, 1903 ; id., Vol. III., p. 163, 1904 ; Fletcher, ib., Vol. IV., 
p. 15, 1904; A. G. Campbell, ib ., p. 123, 1905; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. 
Cat. No. 1, Vol. II., p. 185; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 92, 1908; Littler, 
Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 55, 1910 ; Fletcher, Emu, Vol. XI., p. 106, 1911; Love, 
ib., Vol. XII., p. 49, 1912 ; Mellor and White, ib ., p. 163, 1913 ; Mathews, List Birds 
Austr., p. 261, 1913 ; Dove, Emu, Vol. XV., p. 234, 1916 ; Lord, ib., Vol. XIX., 
p. 106, 1919. 
Melithreptus gularis validirostris Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 393, 1912. 
Melithreptus gularis kingi Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. II., pt. 7, p. 131, Jan. 
28th, 1915 : King Island. 
Melithreptus validirostris validirostris Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. Tasmania, King Island and Flinders Group only. 
Adult female. Entire top of head, nape, hind-neck and sides of face black with a semi¬ 
circular band of white from the sides of the crown across the nape; mantle and 
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