WHITE-FRONTED HONEY-EATER. 
scalloped appearance; outer-webs of flight-quills dull green, inner-webs dark 
brown margined with buff ; rump and upper tail-coverts rust-brown, the long 
coverts blackish like the tail-feathers with slightly paler edgings; ear-coverts silvery- 
grev ; chin, throat, fore-neck, upper breast, and sides of the neck black with a few 
minute white tips to the feathers on the throat; lower breast white with black spots 
to some of the feathers ; abdomen, sides of the body, and under tail-coverts dull 
white streaked with brown ; thighs buff ; axillaries white ; under wing-coverts and 
margins of flight-quills below buff, remainder of quill-lining dark hair-brown like the 
lower aspect of the tail. Bill and feet black, eyes reddish-brown, wattle behind 
the eye red. Total length 178 mm. ; culmen 15, wing 81, tail 77, tarsus 23. 
Figured. Collected at Mungi Rock Hole, 8 miles S.E. of Mount Alexander, West 
Kimberley, North-west Australia, on the 30th of June, 1911. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male. 
Adult male. Crown of head and nape blackish with greenish margins to the feathers ; 
hind-neck and sides of neck dark brown intermixed with grey and yellow ; back 
and upper wing-coverts dark brown with pale edges to the feathers ; flight-quills 
also dark brown with yellow margins on the outer-webs and buff on the inner ones, 
the innermost secondaries on the upper-surface somewhat darker than the primaries 
and inclining to w hite on the margins ; upper tail-coverts rust-colour ; tail blackish, 
slightly paler at the tip and more or less fringed with dull green on the basal portion ; 
lores, chin, and throat dull citron-yellow with a few dark spots of black on the last ; 
eyelid yellowish follow ed by a brown eye-ring ; an indication of a white moustacial 
streak, which extends to below r the ear-coverts, which are dark brown ; fore-neck 
and upper breast blackish-brown; kmer breast, abdomen, and axillaries whitish 
with dark streaks to some of the feathers on the breast ; thighs, vent, under tail- 
coverts, under wing-coverts, and iimer margins of flight-quills below buff, remainder 
of quill-hning hair-brown like the lower aspect of the tail. Figured. Collected at 
Laverton, South-west Australia, on the 16th of October, 1905, and is the type of 
G. a. lavertoni. 
Young “ birds are brown above, wdngs brown; some of the greater coverts and the 
secondaries margined w r ith whity-brown on their outer-webs ; tail-feathers brown 
with paler brown margins ; head, ear-coverts and sides of the neck brown; chin 
and upper throat dull white passing into fulvous-brown on the fore-neck, which, 
together with some of the feathers on the upper breast are dark brown except on their 
margins; remainder of the under-surface dull white slightly washed with fulvous- 
brown ; under tail-coverts dull white centred with blackish-brown ; bill brown, 
the under-mandible yellow at the base ; legs and feet bluish-grey, iris brown.’" 
(North.) 
Eggs. Two eggs usually form the clutch, and vary in ground-colouring from pale pinkish- 
white to fleshy-pink. A pair taken at Flinders Range, South Australia, on the 21st 
of October, 1901, is of a pale pinkish-wdiite ground-colour, spotted chiefly at the 
larger end with chestnut markings, and measure 19 by 14 mm. ; swollen ovals in 
shape ; surface of shell smooth, and slightly glossy. Another clutch of tw r o eggs, 
taken in the Mallee country of Victoria on the 9th of October, 1899, is of a fleshy- 
pink ground-colour, well spotted and blotched with reddish-brown and dull purple, 
and measure 19 by 14 mm ; swollen ovals in shape ; surface of shell smooth and 
slightly glossy. 
Eest. A cup-shaped structure, composed of bark and grasses, and usually lined with the 
soft and silk-like brown substance removed from the seed-cones of the Banksia. 
Dimensions over all:—3 inches across by nearly 2\ inches deep. Inside egg cavity 
about li inches across by 1J inches deep. Nest generally placed in a small bush, 
and within 3 to 5 feet from the ground. 
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