Order PASSERIFORMES. Family MELITHREPTIDM. 
No. 639. 
MELITHREPTUS AFFINIS. 
BLACK-HEADED HOINEY -EATER. 
(Plate 513.) 
Eidopsarus affinis Lesson, Revue Zool., 1839, June No., p. 167, July : “ New South 
Wales ” errore=Tasihania—Hobart. 
Eidopsarus affinis Lesson, Revue Zool., 1839, p. 167. 
Melithreptus melanocephala* Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xvin. (Yol. IV., pi. 75), June 1st, 1845 : 
Tasmania=Hobart; id., Proc. Zool Soc. (Lond.), 1845, p. 62, Sept. ; id., Handb. 
Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 573, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn . Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., 
p. 190, 1878; Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IX., p. 207, 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. 366, 1901 ; Littler, Emu, Vol. II., p. 169, 1903 ; A. G. Campbell, 
lb., p. 207 (King Island) ; Fletcher, ib., Vol. IV., p. 15, 1904 ; A. G. Campbell, 
ib., p. 123, 1905; Brent, ib., Vol. V., p. 12, 1905; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., 
No. I., Vol. II., p. 187, 1907 ; Littler, Handb Birds Tasm., p. 56, 1910 ; Fletcher, 
Emu, Vol. XI., p. 106, 1911 ; White and Melior, ib., Vol. XII., p. 163, 1913 
(Flinders Island); Dove, ib. , Vol. XV., p. 234, 1916. 
Melithreptus affinis North, Ibis, p. 56, 1906 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 92, 1908 ; 
id., List Birds Austr., p. 262, 1913. 
Meliphaga atricapilla Jardine and Selby, Illus., Vol. 3, Omith., pt. 9, pi. 134, fig. 1, 
1833 (Feb.). 
Not Meliphaga atricapilla Temminck and Laugier, 1825, nor Certhia atricapilla Latham, before. 
Melithreptus alisteri Mathews, Bull. Brit. Om. Club, Vol. XXV., p. 85, March 31st, 1910: 
King Island. 
Melithreptus affinis affinis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 394, 1912 ; id., list Birds 
Austr., p. 262, 1913. 
Melithreptus affinis alisteri Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 394, 1912 ; id., List Birds 
Austr., p. 262, 1913. 
Distribution. Tasmania and King Island and Flinders Group only. 
* Also spelt melanocephalus. 
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