Order PASSERIFORMES . 
No. 656. 
Family MELITHREPTIDJE. 
CONOPOPHILA RUFOGULARIS. 
RED-THROATED HONEY-EATER. 
(Plate 523.) 
Entomophila (?) RUFOGULARIS Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1842, p. 137, Feb. 1843 : 
North Coast of Australia=Derby, North-west Australia. 
Entomophila rufogularis* Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1842, p. 137, 1843 ; id ., Birds 
Austr., pt. xn. (Vol. IV., pi. 52), Sept. 1st, 1843 ; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 
1877, p. 350; id ., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 190, 1878; Gadow, Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IX., p. 219, 1884 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Ser. 2, 
Vol. I., p. 1,092, 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. 378, 1901 ; 
Hall, Emu, Vol. I., p. 102, 1902 ; Le Souef, ib., Vol. II., p. 91, 1902 ; North, 
Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. II., p. 85, 1906 ; Berney, Emu, Vol. VII., p. 81, 
1907 (Food). 4 
Conopophila rufigularis\ Reichenbach, Handb. Spec. Ornith., Abth. II., p. 119, 1852 ; 
Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 533, 1865 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., 
p. 94, 1908 ; id., Emu, Vol. IX., pp. 14-62, 1909 ; Crossman, ib., Vol. X., p. 112, 
1910; Hill, ib., p. 286, 1911; id., ib., Vol. XII., p. 259, 1913 ; Macgillivray, 
ib, Vol. XIII., p. 178, 1914 ; Barnard, ib., p. 209 ; id., ib., Vol. XIV., p. 48, 
1914; H. L. White, ib., Vol. XVI., p. 227, 1917; Macgillivray, ib., Vol. XVII., 
p. 205, 1918. 
Certhionyx rufogularis rufogularis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 401, Jan. 31st, 
1912. 
Certhionyx rufogidaris queenslandicus Mathews, ib. : Inkerman, Queensland. 
Certhionyx rufogularis Iceatsi Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. I., pt. 2, p. 49, April 
2nd, 1912 : Point Keats, Northern Territory. 
Conopophila rufogularis rufogularis Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 269, 1913; id., 
South Austr. Orn., Vol. 3, p. 207, 1918. 
Conopophila rufogularis queenslandica Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 269, 1913. 
Distribution. Northern Tropical Australia from Derby, North-west Australia, to 
Cape York and Inkerman, Queensland. 
* Also spelt rufigularis. 
t Also spelt rufogularis. 
