Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 650. 
Family MELITHREPTIDM. 
PURNELLA ALBIFRONS. 
WHITE-FRONTED HONEY-EATER. 
(Plate 520.) 
Glyciphila albifrons Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1840, p. 160, July 1841: York 
District, West Australia. 
Glyciphila albifrons Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1840, p. 160, 1841 ; id., Birds Austr., 
pt. x. (Vol. IV., p. 29), March 1st, 1843; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 497, 
1865; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 188, 1878 ; Gadow, Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IX., p. 211, 1884; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 12, 
1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 39, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, 
Vol. I., p. 372, 1901 ; Hall, Emu, Vol. I., p. 102, 1902 (N.W.A.); Carter, ib., Vol. III., 
p. 91, 1903 (N.W.A.); Milligan, ib., p. 225, 1904 (W.A.); id., ib., Vol. IV., pp. 2,6,10, 
1904 (W.A.) ; Berney, ib., p. 67 (Q.) ; Carter, ib., p. 69 (W.A.) ; Milligan, ib., p. 152, 
1905 (W.A.) ; Berney, ib., Vol. V., p. 75, 1905 (N.Q.); North, Austr. Mus. Spec. 
Cat. No. 1, Vol. II., p. 74, 1906; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 94, 1908; 
Crossman, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 89, 1909 (W.A.); Whitlock, ib., p. 210, 1910 (W.A.): 
Macgillivray, ib., Vol. X., p. 93, 1910 (N.S.W.); Wilson, ib., Vol. XH., p. 38, 1912 
(Vic.) ; Hill, ib., p. 245, 1913 (Central Australia) ; Campbell and Kershaw, ib., p. 277; 
S. A. White, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 31, 1913 (S.A.); Chandler, ib., p. 43, pi. x. 
(Vic.) ; Orton and Sandland, ib., p. 79 (W.A.) ; S. A. White, ib., p. 128, 1914 (S.A); 
Howe and Tregellas, ib., Vol. XIV., p. 72, pi. rv., 1914 (Vic.); Alexander, ib., Vol. 
XVI., p. 41, 1916 (W.A.); S. A. White, ib., Vol. XVIII., p. 198, 1919 (S.A.). 
Gliciphila albifrons albifrons Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 399, 1912; id., List 
Birds Austr., p. 267, 1913. 
Gliciphila albifrons incerta Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 399, Jan. 31st, 1912: 
Carine, Victoria ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 267, 1913 ; S. A. White, Emu, Vol. XIV., 
p. 190, 1915 (Central Australia). 
Distribution. Central Australia from east to west, but apparently not north of 
Richmond on the Flinders River. 
Adult male. Genoral colour of the upper-surface black or blackish-brown with palo edgings 
to the feathers ; loros cream-white ; eye-ring, moustacial-streak, and sides of 
neck white ; top of head black with pale edgings to the feathers, which imparts a 
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