Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 657. 
Family ME LI THREPTI DIE. 
CERTHIONYX VARIEGATUS. 
PIED HONEY-EATER. 
(Plate 524.) 
Certhionyx VARIEGATUS Lesson, Traite d’Orn., livr. 4, p. 306, Sept. 25th, 1830 : “ Timore ” 
error=Shark’s Bay, West Australia. 
Certhionyx variegatus Lesson, Traite d’Orn., livr. 4, p. 306, 1830 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds 
Austral., p. 94, 1908 ; Whitlock, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 210, pi. xxn., 1910 (W.A.) ; 
Macgillivray, ib., Yol. X., pp. 32-34, 1910 (N.S.W.); Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. 
XVIII., p. 401, 1912 ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 270, 1913; S. A. White, Emu, Vol. 
XIV., p. 191, 1915 (Central Australia) ; id., ib., Vol. XV., p. 161, 1916 (S.A.). 
Certhia leucomdas “ Cuv.” Lesson, Traite d’Orn., livr. 4, p. 306, Sept. 25th, 1830, as 
synonym of C. variegatus. 
Mdicophila picata Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xv. (Vol. IV., pi. 49), June 1st, 1844 : Perth 
district, West Australia. 
Entomophila picata Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. I., p. 118, 1846. 
Lichnotentha picata Cabanis, Mus. Heine., Vol. I., p. 116, 1851; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., 
Vol. I., p. 529, 1865. 
Certhyonyx leucomdas Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. (Paris), Vol. XXXVIII., 
p. 263, 1854; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 190, 1878; id., Tab. 
List Austr. Birds, p. 13, 1888. 
Entomophila leucomdas Gray, Handl. Gen. Sp. Birds, Vol. I., p. 154, 1869 ; Gadow, Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IX., p. 220, 1884 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 40, 1899 ; 
Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 380, 1901; Hall, Emu, Vol. I., 
p. 102, 1902 ; Le Souef, ib., Vol. II., p. 147, 1903 ; Carter, ib., Vol. III., p. 92, 
1903. 
Certhionyx occidentals Grant, Ibis, 1909, p. 658, Oct. No. (received B.M., Nov. 27th) : 
Carnarvon, West Australia ; Campbell, Emu, Vol. X., p. 299, 1911 (Eggs). 
Certhionyx variegatus negleda Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. III., pt. 3, p. 62, April 
7th, 1916 : New South Wales. 
Distribution. Across Southern Central Australia from New South Wales to West 
Australia, commoner in the West. 
Adult male. General colour of the upper- and under-surface black and white. Entire 
top of head, throat and neck all round black, like the sides of the breast, back, 
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