Order PASSERIFORMES. 
Family MELITIIREPTIDM. 
No. 642. 
MYZOMELA SANGUINOLENTA. 
SANGUINEOUS HONEY-EATER. 
(Plate 515.) 
Cekthia saxgctnolenta Latham, Index Omith. Suppl., p. xxxvii, after May 1801: New 
South Wales, based on Watling painting No. 109. 
Certhia sanguinolenta Latham, Index Omith. Suppl., p. xxxvii, 1801. 
Certhia dibapha Latham, ib. : New South Wales. 
Certhia erythropygia Latham, ib., p. xxxviii: New South Wales. 
Sanguineous Creeper Latham, Gen. Synops. Birds, Suppl. II., p. 167, 1801. 
Cochineal Creeper Latham, ib. 
Red-rumped Creeper Latham, ib p. 169, 
Certhia austrahsice Leach, Zool. Miscellany, Vol. I., p. 30, 1814 : New South Wales. 
Meliphaga sanguinea Stephens in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., Vol. XIV., pt. i., p. 263 (end), 1826 : 
New South Wales. 
Meliphaga cardinalts Vigors & Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 316, 1827. 
(Not of Gmelin.) 
Myzomela sanguinolenta* Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xi. (Vol. IV., pi. 63), June 1st, 1843; 
id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 555, 1865 ; Ramsay, Ibis, 1865, p. 304; id., Proc.’ 
Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1875, p. 597 (N.Q.); id., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 190, 
1878; Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IX., p. 131, 1884; Ramsay, Tab. List 
Aust. Birds, p. 14, 1888; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 37, 1899; Campbell, Nests 
and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 352, 1901 ; Somerville, Emu, Vol. II., p. 104, 
1902 (Vic.); Bemey, ib., Vol. V., p. 75, 1905 (N.Q.) ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. 
Cat., No. 1, Vol. II., p. 92, 1906; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 93, 1908; 
E. D. Barnard, Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 215, 1902 (Q.); Broadbent, ib., Vol. X., p. 239,’ 
1910 (N.Q.) ; Macgillivray, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 176, 1914 (N.Q.) ; Campbell and 
Barnard, ib., Vol. XVII., p. 31, 1917 (N.Q.) ; Ramsay, ib., Vol. XIX., p. 6, 1919 
(N.S.W.); S. A. White, ib., p. 225, 1920 (Q.); Le Souef and Macpherson, ib., Vol. 
XX., p. 90, 1920 (N.S.W.). 
* Sometimes spelt sanguineolenta. 
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