Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 649. 
Family MELITIIREPTID.E. 
GLICIPHILA MELANOPS. 
TAWNY-FRONTED HONEY-EATER. 
(Plate 519.) 
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Certhia melanops Latham, Index Ornith. Suppl., p. xxxvi. (after May 30th), 1801: 
New South Wales, based on (Lambert drawing) Watling drawing No. 99 =Sydney, 
Certhia melanops Latham, Index Ornith. Suppl., p. xxxvi., 1801 ; Gould, Ann. Mag. Nat. 
Hist., Vol. XI., p. 355, 1843. 
Black-eyed Creeper Latham, Gen. Synops. Birds, Suppl. II., p. 165, 1801. 
Certhia mellinora Bechstein, Kurze Uebers. Vogel, p. 198 (pref. April 12th, 1810), 1811: 
Sydney (misprint for mellivora). 
Certhia mellivora Shaw, Gen. Zool., Vol. VIII., pt. i., p. 245, 1812 : New South Wales. 
Not Certhia mellivora Latham, Index Ornith. Suppl., p. xxxm., 1801. 
Meliphaga albiventris Stephens in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., Vol. XIV., p. 261 (end), 1826: new 
name for preceding. 
Meliphaga fulvifrons Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 317, 
Feb. 17th, 1827 : New South Wales. 
Philedon rubrifrons* Lesson, Voyage de la “ Coquille,” Zool., Vol. I., livr. 14, p. 646, Jan. 
9th, 1830 : New South Wales. 
Gliciphila't fulvifrons Swainson, Classif. Birds, Vol. II., p. 326, 1837; Gould, Birds Austr., 
pt. x. (Vol. IV., pi. 28), March 1st, 1843 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 495, 
1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 188, 1878 ; Gadow, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus., Vol. IX., p. 210, 1884; Legge, Papers Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasrn., 1886, 
p. 240, 1887 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 12, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., 
p. 39, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 370, 1901; Littler, 
Emu, Vol. II., p. 170, 1903 (Tas.) ; Milligan, ib., p. 172 (W.A.); id., ib ., Vol. III., pp. 
11 and 18 (S.W.A.); Maclaine, ib., p. 192, 1904 (Tas.) ; Milligan, ib ., Vol. IV., pp. 
2,6,10 (W.A.) ; Fletcher, ib., p. 15 (Tas.); Lawson, ib., p. 135, 1905 (W.A.); A. G. 
Campbell, ib., Vol. V., p. 143, 1906 (King Island) ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. 
No. 1, Vol. II., p. 71, 1906 ; Howe, Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 130-1, 1909 (Vic.); id., ib., 
Vol. IX., p. 233, 1910 (Vic.) ; Fletcher, ib., Vol. X., p. 137, 1910 (Tas.); Littler, 
Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 57, 1910 ; Whitlock, Emu, Vol. X., p. 313, 1911 (W.A); 
♦ Philedon auri/rons Lesson, Traitd d‘Omith., livr. 4, p. 301, Sept. 25th, 1830, has nothing to do with this bird. 
| Also spelt Glyciphila and Olycyphila. 
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