Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 653. 
Family MELITHREPTIDM . 
GRANTIELLA PICTA. 
PAINTED HONEY-EATER. 
(Plate 522.) 
Entomophila picta Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. rv., pi. (71), April 1st, 1838 : Interior 
New South Wales. 
Entomophila picta Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., April 1838 ; id ., Proc. Zool. Soc. 
(Lond.) 1837, p. 154, Dec. 1838 ; id ., Birds Austr., pt. xn. (Vol. IV., pi. 50), Sept. 
1st, 1843 ; id ., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 530, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. 
Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 189, 1878 ; Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IX., p. 219, 
1884 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 13, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 40, 
1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 377, 1901; North, 
Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. II., p. 83, 1906 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., 
p. 94, 1908 ; Barnard, Emu, Vol. XIV., p. 48, 1914 (N.T.); Austin, ib. f p. 173, 
1915 (N.S.W.); Ramsay, ib ., Vol. XIX., p. 273, 1920 (N.S.W.). 
Certhionyx pictus Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 400, 1912. 
Grantiella picta Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 268, 1913. 
Entomophila borealis H. L. White, Emu, Vol. XIII., pt. in., p. 187, Jan. 1st, 1914: 
MacArthur River, Northern Territory. 
Grantiella picta cloncurri Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. II., pt. 7, p. 133, Jan. 28th, 
1915: Cloncurry, Queensland. 
Distribution. Interior of Eastern Australia, South Australia, Victoria, New South 
Wales, Queensland to MacArthur River, Northern Territory. 
Adult male . General colour of the upper-surface black, including the top of the head, 
sides of face, sides of neck, hind-neck, back, wings, and tail, with whitish margins 
to some of the upper wing-coverts, upper tail-coverts and tips of flight-quills ; outer 
webs of flight-quills yellow, the inner webs margined with white, the terminal portion 
of the quills uniform black ; tail black fringed with yellow on the outer webs and 
the terminal portion of the inner webs white ; throat, fore-neck, breast, sides of 
breast, abdomen, sides of body, under tail-coverts, axillaries, under wing-coverts 
and inner margins of quills below white with a few black marks on the thighs and 
outer margin of the wing below ; remainder of quill-lining blackish ; lower aspect 
of tail similar to its upper-surface. Bill yellowish with black tip, feet grey, eyes 
roddisli-brown. Total length 160 mm. ; culmen 13, wing 90, tail 55, tarsus 18. 
Figured. Collected at Cloncurry, Gulf of Carpentaria, North Queensland, and is 
the type of G. p. cloncurri . The sexes are alike. 
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