Order PASSERIFORMES. 
Family MELITHREPT1DIE. 
No. 638. 
MELITHREPTUS ATRICAPILLUS. 
BROWN-HEADED HONEY-EATER. 
(Plate 511.) 
Certhia atricapilla Latham, Index Ornith. Suppl., p. xxxvii., (after May) 1801: New 
South Wales, based on Watling painting No. 105. 
Black-headed Creeper Latham, General Svnops. Birds, Suppl. II., p. 167, 1801. 
Certhia atricapilla Latham, Index Ornith. Suppl., p. xxxvii. 1801 ; Mathews, Austral 
Avian Record, Vol. III., p. 25, pi. iv., 1915. 
Melithreptus atricapillus Vieillob, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., nouv. ed., Vol. XIV., p. 324, 
1817 ; Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 19, 1911. 
Meliphaga brevirostris Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 315, 
Feb. 17th, 1827 : New South Wales. 
Melithreptus brevirostris Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 570, 1865; Ramsay, 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 190, 1878; Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. 
IX., p. 207, 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. 364, 1901; 
id.. Emu, Vol. III., p. 248, pi. xvx, 1904 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, 
Vol. II., p. 190, 1907 ; Batey, Emu, Vol. VII., p. 9, 1907 (Vic.); Mathews, Hand! 
Birds Austral., p. 92, 1908; Hall, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 129, 1910 (S.A.); Cleland, 
ib., p. 224 (Food); Howe, ib., p. 233 (Vic.) ; Ingle, ib., Vol. X., p. 124, 1910 
(Vic.) ; Cleland, ib., Vol. XI., p. 90, 1911 (Food) ; Sullivan, ib., p. 115 (Mallee); 
S. A. White, ib., Vol. XII., p. 4, 1912 (S.A.) ; Cleland, ib., p. 15 (Food); Wilson, 
ib., p. 38 (Vic.); Ashby, ib., p. 47 (Mallee); S. A. White, ib., pp. 127-129, 1912 
(S.A.); id., ib., p. 180, 1913 (Mallee); id., ib., Vol. XHI., p. 128, 1914 (S.A.); 
IIowo and Tregellas, ib., Vol. XIV., p. 79, 1914 (Mallee); Purnell, ib., Vol. XV., 
p. 43, 1915 (Vic.) ; S. A. White, ib., Vol. XV ITT. , p. 24, 1918 (S.A.); Cleland, ib., 
p. 282, 1919; Le Souef and Macpherson, ib., Vol. XX., p. 90, 1920 (N.S.W.). 
Melithreptus breviceps He Vis, Proc. Roy. Sec. Queensl., Vol. I., pt. m., p. 159 (after Sept.), 
1884 : worn, nudum ; slip for brevirostris. 
Melithreptus leucogenys Milligan, Emu, Vol. H., p. 161, Jan. 1st, 1903: Stirling Ranges, 
South-west Australia ; id., ib., Vol. III., pp. 11, 13, 18, 1903 ; id., ib., p. 225, 1904; 
id., ib., Vol. IV., pp. 6-10, 1904; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 92, 1908; 
Gibson, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 75, 1909; Crossman, ib., p. 89; Whitlock, ib., Vol. X., 
p. 311, 1911 ; Chandler, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 43, 1913 (Vic.) ; Alexander, ib., Vol. XX., 
p. 167, 1921. 
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