Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 652. 
Family MELITHREPTIDM. 
RAMSAYORNIS FASCIATUS. 
WHITE-BREASTED HONEY-EATER. 
(Plate 521.) 
Glyciphila fasciata Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1842, p. 137, Feb. 1843: Port 
Essington, Northern Territory. 
Glyciphila fasciata Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1842, p. 137, 1843; id.. Birds Austr., 
pt. x. (Vol. IV., pi. 30), March 1st, 1843 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 499, 
1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1875, p. 594; Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus., Vol. IX., p. 212, 1884; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 12, 1888; Hall, 
Key Birds Austr., p. 40, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., 
p. 373, 1901 ; Le Souef, Emu, Vol. II., p. 146, 1903 (N.T.); North, Austr. Mus. 
Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. II., p. 76, 1906 ; Hall, Emu, Vol. VII., p. 27, 1907 (N.W.A); 
Mathews, Hand! Birds Austral., p. 94, 1908; Cornwall, Emu, Vol. VHI., p. 139, 
1909 (N.Q.); Mathews, ib., Vol. IX., p. 14, 1909 (N.W.A.); Broadbent, ib., Vol. X., 
p. 238, 1910 (N.Q.) ; Hill, ib., p. 285, 1911 (N.W.A.); id., ib., Vol. XII., pp. 259-61, 
1913 (N.T.); Macgillivray, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 177, 1914 (N.Q.); Barnard, ib., 
Vol. XIV., p. 48, 1914 (N.T.) ; Campbell, ib., Vol. XV., p. 187, pi. xxx., 1916; 
H. L. White, ib., Vol. XVI., p. 227, 1917 (N.T.); MacgiUivray, ib., Vol. NYU, 
p. 205, 1918 (N.Q.); Campbell, ib., Vol. XVIII., p. 186, 1919 (N.T.). 
Gliciphila pectoralis Gray, Hand!. Gen. Sp. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. I., p. 155, 1869= 
Feb. 2nd, 1870 : new name for G. fasciata Gould ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. 
N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 188, 1878. 
Gliciphila gouldi Layard, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1878, p. 655, Oct. 1st: new name for 
G. fasciata Gould. 
Gliciphila fasciata fasciata Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 400, Jan. 31st, 1912. 
Gliciphila fasciata inkermani Mathews, ib. : lnkorman, Queensland ; id., Austral Av. 
Rec., Vol. I., p. 61, 1912. 
Gliciphila fasciata broomei Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 2, p. 49, April 2nd, 1912: 
Napier Broome Bay, North-west Australia. 
Gliciphila fasciata apsleyi Mathews, ib. : Molville Island, Northern Territory; id., 
Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 79, 1912. 
Ramsayornis fasciahts fasciatus Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 268, 1913. 
Ramsayornis fasciatus apsleyi Mathews, ib .; id., Ibis, 1914, p. 127. 
Ramsayornis fasciatus broomei Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 268, 1913. 
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