Order PASSERIFORMES. 
'Mo. 654. 
(?) Family MELITIIREPTIDjE. 
LACUSTROICA WHITEI. 
INCONSPICUOUS HONEY-EATER. 
(Plate 522.) 
Lacustroica whitei North, Victorian Naturalist, Vol. XXVI., p. 138, Jan. 13th, 1910 ; 
Lake Way, East Murchison, West Australia. 
Lacustroica whitei North, Victorian Naturalist, Vol. XXVI., p. 138, 1910 ; Whitlock, 
Emu, Vol. IX., p. 209, pi. xv., 1910 ; id., ib ., Vol. X., p. 72, 1910 ; Mathews, List 
Birds Austr., p. 269, 1913 ; Mellor, Emu, Vol. XX., p. 242, 1921 ; Whitlock, ib., 
Vol. XXIII., p. 276, 1924. 
Lacustroica inconspicua North, Victorian Naturalist, Vol. XXVI., p. 139, Jan. 13th, 1910 ; 
alternative name only. 
Lacustroica alfredi Mathews, List Birds Austr,, p. 269, Dec. 31st, 1913, as synonym of 
L . whitei , ex., Campbell, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 166, Jan. 1st, 1910 : nomen nudum . 
Certhionyx whitei Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 401, 1912. 
Lacustroica whitei neglecta Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. III., pt. 3, p. 62, April 7th, 
1916 : Day Dawn, West Australia 
Lacustroica whitei whitei Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. Mid-west Australia. 
Adidt male . General colour of the upper-surface pale earth-brown, including the top 
of the head, sides of face, back, and wings ; flight-quills and tail-feathers dark 
brown; rump and tips of tail-feathers white ; chin, throat, abdomen, flanks, under 
wing-coverts, and inner margins of flight-quills white ; fore-neck, upper breast 
and outer margins of under wing-coverts tinged with very pale fawn-colour ; 
thighs dusky; the basal portion of the feathers on the abdomen blackish. 
Culrnen black ; base of lower mandible flesh -pink ; legs and feet very dark grey ; 
eyes clear brown. Total length 110 mm. ; culrnen 8, wing 64, tail 43, tarsus 17. 
Figured. Collected at Day Dawn, Mid-west Australia, on the 18th of May, 1903, 
and is the type of L. w. neglecta . 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male. 
Immature have a tinge of yellowish-green on the throat. 
Eggs. Clutch two. Shape sw r ollen oval, texture of shell fine and slightly glossy ; colour 
white moderately marked with small rich reddish-brown spots, while some of 
dull purplish-grey, and appearing as if beneath the surface of the shell, are mixed 
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