Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 644. 
Family ME LITE RE PTIDJE. 
CISSOMELA PECTORALIS. 
BANDED HONEY-EATER. 
(Plate 516.) 
Myzomela pectoralis Gould.. Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lend.), 1840, p. 170, July 1841 : North¬ 
west Australia. 
Myzomela pectoralis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Loud.), 1840, p. 170, 1841; id,.. Birds Austr., 
pt xn. (Vol. IV., pi. 65), Sept. 1st, 1843 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 557, 
1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Bond.), 1875, p. 597; id., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 
Vol. II., p. 190, 1878 ; Forbes, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1879, p. 275 ; Gadow, Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IX., p. 138, 1884; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Ser. 2, 
Vol. I., p. 169, 1887; id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 14, 1888; Hall, Key Birds 
Austr., p. 37, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 355, 1901 ; 
Hall, Emu, Vol. I., p. 97, 1902 (N.W.A.); Le Souef, ib., Vol. II., p. 91, 1902 (N.T.); 
North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. II., p. 100, 1906; Mathews, Handl. 
Birds Austral., p. 93, 1908; (?) Whitlock, Emu, Vol. VEIL, p. 183, 1909 (W.A.); 
Mathews, ib., Vol. IX., p. 13, 1909 (N.W.A.); Hill, ib., Vol. X., p. 284, 
1911 (N.W.A.) ; id., ib., Vol. XII., p. 259, 1913 (N.T.); Macgillivray, ib., Vol. XIII., 
p. 176, 1914 (N.Q.) ; Barnard, ib., Vol. XIV., p. 48, 1914 (N.T.); H. L. White, ib., 
Vol. XVI.. p. 227, 1917 (N.T.) ; Campbell and Barnard, ib., Vol. XVII., p. 32, 
1917 (N.Q.) ; Macgillivray, ib., p. 205, 1918 (N.Q.). 
Cissomela nigra (not of Gould) Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. Paris Vol. XXXVIII., 
p. 265, 1854. 
Myzomela pectorali.s pectoralis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 396, 1912. 
Myzomela pectoralis incerta Mathews, ib.. Jan. 31st, 1912 : Cape York, Queensland. 
Cissomela pectoralis pectoralis Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 264, 1913. 
Cissomela pectoralis incerta, Mathews, ib. 
Distribution - . North-west Australia, Northern Territory, North Queensland. 
Adult male. General colour of the upper-surface black including the top of the head, 
lores, nape, hind-neck, back, scapulars, wings, tail, and a band across the upper 
breast; lower back inclining to grey ; upper tail-coverts white ; tips of tail- 
feathers rust-brown ; chin, throat, fore-neck, sides of face, sides of neck, under 
tail-coverts, axillaries and under wing-coverts white ; abdomen and sides of body 
cream-white ; thighs blackish intermixed with white ; outer margin of wing below, 
under-surface of Hight-quills, and lower aspect of tail black. Bill and feet blacky 
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