BROWN -HEADED HONEY-EATER, 
Melithreptus magnirostris North, Records Austr. Mus., Yol. VI., p. 20, June 16th, 1905: 
Kangaroo Eland; Hall, Key Birds Austr., 2nd ed., p. 113, 1906; A. G. Campbell, 
Emu, Vol. V., p. 143, 1900; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. II., p. 193, 
1907; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 92, 1908 ; S. A. White, Emu, Vol. XII., 
p. 269, 1913. 
Melithreptus atricapillus atricapillus Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 393, 1912 ; id ., 
List Birds Austr., p, 261, 1913. 
Melithreptus atricapillus suhmagnirostris Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 393, Jan. 
31st, 1912 : (Ringwood) Victoria ; id ., List Birds Austr., p. 261, 1913 ; Belcher, 
Birds Geelong, p. 328, 1914. 
Melithreptus atricapillus augustus Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 393, Jan. 31st, 
1912: Port Augusta, South Australia; id. t List Birds Austr., p. 262, 1913; 
S. A. White, Emu. Vol. XVIII., p. 198, 1919 (S.A.). 
Melithreptus atricapillus pallidiceps Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 394, Jan. 31st. 
1912 : 90 Mile Desert, South Australia. 
Melithreptus atricapillus magnirostris Mathews, ib. ; id ., List Birds Austr., p. 261, 1913. 
Melithreptus atricapillus insularis 'Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 394, Jan. 31st, 
1912: King Island; id., List Bird* Austr., p. 261, 1913. 
Melithreptus atricapillus leucogenys Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 394, 1912; id ., 
List Birds Austr., p. 262, 1913. 
Melithreptus atricapillus subleueogenys Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 394, Jan. 31st, 
1912: Lake Dundas, South-west Australia ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 262, 1913. 
Melithreptus atricapillus minnie Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. I., pt. 8, p. 192, 
March 20th, 1913 : Minnie Downs, Queensland : id., List Birds Austr., p. 261, 1913. 
Melithreptus atricapillus malice Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. I., pt. 8, p. 192, 
March 20th, 1913 : Mallee, Victoria; id.. List Birds Austr., p. 261, 1913. 
Distribution. Southern Australia northwards to Minnie Downs ; Central Queensland 
and westward to inland from Perth, West Australia ; Bang Island and Kangaroo 
Island. 
Adidt male. Entire top of head, lores, sides of face and nape dusky-brown with a pale 
semi-circular band from the sides of the crown across the nape ; sides of neck, 
bind-neck, back, scapulars, rump, and upper tail-coverts dull olive-green ; wings 
dark brown with pale margins to the feathers, including the inner-webs of the flight- 
quills tail hair-brown with clive-green margins to the outer-webs and pale edges 
to the inner ones ; cheeks wliitish ; chin dusky with hair-like tips to the feathers ; 
throat, breast, upper abdomen, and sides of body drab-grey, tinged with fawn- 
colour on the lower abdomen, thighs, lower flanks, and under tail-coverts ; axillaries 
and under wing-coverts pale buff ; under-surface of flight-quills dark brown with 
whitish margins ; lower aspect of tail hair-brown. Bill black, feet light brown, 
eyes brown, bare space round eye deep yellow. Total length 124 mm. ; culrnen 
10, wing 71, tail 56, tarsus 19. Figured. Collected on Warunda Creek, Eyre’s 
Peninsula, South Australia, on the 24tli of August, 1911. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male. 
Adult. Top of head, nape, and side of face dark brown, the feathers on the crown abraided 
and showing pale shaft-lines ; an indicated line of white on the sides of the hinder- 
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