Order PASSERIFORMES. 
Family M E LIT HR EPT1 D/E. 
No. 641. 
PLECTORHAMPHUS LANCEOLATUS. 
STRIPED HONEY-EATER. 
(Pirate 513.) 
Plectorhyncha lanceolata Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., pi. (70), April 1st, 
1838 : New South Wales. 
Plectorhyncha lanceolata Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., 1838 : id., Proc. Zool. Soc. 
(Lond.), 1837, p. 153, Dec. 1838 ; id., Birds Austr., pt. iv. (Vol. IV., pi. 47). Sept. 
1st, 1841 ; id ., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 525, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. 
Soc. (Loud.), 1875, p. 596; id., Proo. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. IT., p. 189, 1878; 
Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IX., p. 208, 1884; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. 
Birds, p. 13, 1888; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 39, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and 
Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 369, 1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. 
II., p. 152, 1907 ; Howe, Emu, Vol. VIII.. pp. 136-7, 1909 (Vic.) ; Jackson, ib. 3 
p. 242, 1909 (N.Q.); Macgillivray, ib., Vol. X., pp. 90-2, 1910 (N.S.W.); Stone, 
ib, Vol. XII., p. 116, 1912 (Vic.); Chandler, ib. 3 Vol. XIII., p. 43, pi. x., 1913 (Vic.); 
Campbell and Barnard, ib., Vol. XVII., p. 31, 1917 (N.Q.); S. A. White, ib., Vol. 
XVIII., p. 24, 1918 (S.A.); Gogerley, ib., Vol. XXIII., p. 32, 1923. 
Pledorham'phus lanceolatus Gray, List Genera Birds, 1st ed., p. 16, 1840 ; Mathews, Handl. 
Birds Austral., p. 92, 1908; Howe, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 233, 1910 (Vic.); Cleland, 
ib., Vol. XII., p. 15, 1912 (Food) ; Wilson, ib., p. 38 (Vic.) ; Jackson, ib., pp. 68-78. 
Plectorhyncha lanceolata lanceolata Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 395, 1912 ; id., 
List Birds Austr., p. 262, 1913. 
Plectorhyncha lanceolata neglecta Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 395, Jan. 31st, 1912 : 
Adelaide, South Australia ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 263, 1913. 
Distribution. Eastern Australia from Mid-Queensland to South Australia. Not 
Tasmania. 
Adult male. Top of head, fore-head, lores, and nape pale grey with blackish pear-shaped 
markings on the middle of the feathers ; sides of face similar but whiter and of 
a much smaller pattern ; sides of neck, liind-neck and mantle white with blackish 
centres to the feathers ; back, scapulars and nunp olive, the feathers broadly 
centred with black; upper tail-coverts similar with dark shaft-lines ; lesser, 
median and greater upper wing-coverts olive like the outer edges of the flight- 
quills ; primary-coverts black with olive margins and fringed w r itli buff at the 
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