Order PASSERIFORMES. 
Family MELITHREPTIDM. 
No. 655. 
CONOPOPHILA ALBOGULARIS. 
RUFOUS-BREASTED HONEY-EATER. 
(Plate 523.) 
Entomophila (?) ALBOGULARIS Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Loud.) 1842, p. 137, Feb. 1843: 
Port Essington, Northern Territory. 
Entomophila albogularis* Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1842 p. 137, 1843; id., 
Birds Austr., pt. xn. (Vol. IV., pi. 51), Sept. 1st, 1843 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. 
N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 190, 1878 ; Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mas., Vol. IX., p. 219, 
1884; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Ser. 2, Vol. I., p. 1,098, 1887; id., Tab. 
List Austr. Birds, p. 13, 1888; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 40, 1899; Campbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 379, 1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., 
No. 1, Vol. II., p. 86, 1906. 
Conopophila albigularis Reichenbacli, Handb. Spec. Ornith., Abth. II., p. 119, 1852; 
Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 532, 1865 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral, 
p. 94, 1908 ; H. L. White, Emu, Vol. XVI., p. 227, 1917 (N.T.); Campbell, ib., 
Vol. XVIII., p. 186, 1919. 
Certhionyx albogularis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 401, 1912. 
Certhionyx albogularis yorki Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. I., pt. 2, p. 49, 
April 2nd, 1912 : Cape York, Queensland. 
Conopophila albogularis albogularis Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 269, 1913; id., Ibis 
1914, p. 128. 
Conopophila albogularis yorki Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 269, 1913 ; Macgillivray, 
Emu, Vol. XVII., p. 205, 1914. 
Distribution. Northern Territory, North Queensland (New Guinea). 
Adult male . Top of head, nape, and sides of face pale slate-grey with dark centres to 
the feathers on, the crown and nape ; back, rump, upper tail-coverts, scapulars, 
and upper wing-coverts earth-brown ; flight-quills and tail-feathers dark brown 
margined yellow on the outer webs and white on the inner ones; cliin and throat 
white ; fore-neck and sides of neck rust-brown; sides of body pale ochreous- 
brown; middle of abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts white; axillaries and 
under wing-coverts bully-white; under-surface of flight-quills hair-brown with 
white edgings ; lower aspect of tail similar to its upper-surface but paler. Bill 
leaden-brown; basal two-thirds of lower mandible blue-grey; feet and tarsi 
* Also spelt albigularis. 
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