TAWNY-FRONTED HONEY-EATER. 
Fletcher, ib., Vol. XL, p. 106 (Tas.); S. A. White, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 31, 1913 
(S.A.); Chandler, ib., p. 43 (Vic.); S. A. White, ib., Vol. XIV., p. 143, 1915 (Malla- 
coota); Alexander, ib., Vol. XX., p. 167, 1921 (W.A.). 
Gliciphila melanops Gray, Annals Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. XI., p. 191, 1843 ; Sharpe, Hist. 
Coll. Nat. Hist., B.M., Vol. II., p. 127, 1906 ; Mathews, Hand! Birds Austral., 
p. 94, 1908; Hall, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 129, 1910 (S.A.) ; Cleland, ib., Vol. XI., p. 90, 
1911 (Food); Sullivan, ib., p. 115 (Vic.) ; S. A. White, ib., Vol. XII., pp. 4-5, 1912 
(S.A.); Wilson, ib., p. 38 (Vic.) ; Alexander, ib., Vol. XVI., p. 33, 1916 (W.A.). 
Gliciphila melanops melanops Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 399, 1912 ; id., List 
Birds Anstr., p. 266, 1913. 
Gliciphila melanops chandleri Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 399, Jan. 31st, 1912 : 
(Frankston) Victoria; id., Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 61, 1912; id., List Birds 
Austr., p. 266, 1913 ; Belcher, Birds Geelong, p. 333, 1914; S. A. White, Emu, 
Vol. XVI., p. 14, 1916. 
Gliciphila melanops crassirostris Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 399, Jan. 31st, 
1912: Tasmania; id., List Birds Austr., p. 267, 1913. 
Gliciphila melanops wester nensis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 399, Jan. 31st, 1912 : 
Wilson’s Inlet, South-west Australia ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 267, 1913. 
Gliciphila melanops braba Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. I., pt. 2, p. 49, April 
2nd, 1912 : Kangaroo Island; id., List Birds Austr., p. 267, 1913. 
Glyciphila breba S. A. White, Emu, Vol. XII., p. 264, 1913. 
Glycyphila crassirostris Mellor and White, Emu, Vol. XII., p. 163, 1913: Flinders Island. 
Distribution. New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Kangaroo Island, South¬ 
west Australia and Tasmania. 
Adult male. Fore-part of head, including lores, cinnamon ; a superciliary line of greyish- 
white which extends on to the hinder margins of the ear-coverts ; feathers in front 
and behind the eye, ear-coverts, and a line down the sides of the neck blackish- 
brown ; hind-neck and mantle uniform dusky-brown; back dark brown with 
slightly paler shaft-lines to the feathers ; wings dark brown with pale edgings to 
the feathers, which incline to vellowish-green on the flight-quills, the inner-webs 
of which are margined with rufous-buff; rump and upper tail-coverts dusky-brown 
with a greyish tinge ; tail dark brown ; chin, throat, and fore-neck white ; middle 
of breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts whitish ; sides of breast and sides of body 
drab-grey with some dark brown markings on the former ; axillaries, under wing- 
coycrts, and margins of flight-quills below' bright chestnut; remainder of quiU- 
lining dark brown ; lower aspect of tail similar to its upper-surface but rather paler. 
Bill black, feet horn, eyes brown. Total length 158 mm. ; culmen 18, wing 82, 
tail 68, tarsus 22. Figured. Collected at Frankston, Victoria, and is the type of 
G- m. chandleri. 
Adult female similar to the adult male. 
loung *• birds resemble the adult but have most of the feathers of the upper-parts narrowly 
centred with whity-brown and the wings and tail-feathers duller in colour; the 
lore-head only has a reddish-fulvous wash ; a small spot on front of the eye and the 
ear-coverts brown ; chin and upper throat pale yellow ; lower throat dull white ; 
remainder of the under-surface browner than that in the adult with sagittate 
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