Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 658. 
Family MELITHREPTID2E. 
ZANTHOMIZA PHRYGIA. 
REGENT HONEY-EATER. 
(Plate 525.) 
Merofs phrygius Shaw, Zool. New Holland, p. 13, pi. rv., pt. rv., 1/94: New South 
Wales. 
Merops phrygius Shaw, Zool. Mus. Holland, p. 13, pt. iv., 1794 ; Latham, Index Omith. 
Suppl., p. xxxiv., 1801. 
Black and Yellow Bee-eater Latham, Gen. Synops. Birds, Suppl. II., p. 154, 1801. 
Meliphaga phrygia Lewin, Birds New Holland, pi. 14, 1808 ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., 
Vol. I., p. 527, 1865; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Yol. II., p. 189, 1878; 
Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IX., p. 221, 1884; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. 
Birds, p. 13, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 41, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs 
Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 381, 1901 ; A. G. Campbell, Emu, Vol. II., p. 14, 1902 
(Vic.); Batey, ib., Vol. VII., p. 9, 1907 (Vic.); North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, 
Vol. II., p. 154, 1907 ; Hill, Emu, Vol. VII., p. 18, 1907 (Vic.); Austin, ib., pp. 30-91 
(N.S.W.); Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 95, 1908; H. L. White, Emu, 
Vol. IX., p. 93, 1909 (N.S.W.); Cleland, ib., p. 224, 1910 (Food) ; Austin, ib., 
Vol. XII., p. 42, 1912 (N.S.W.); Stone, ib., p. 116 (Vic.). 
Turdus squameus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., nouv. ed., Vol. XX., p. 259, May 30th, 
1818 : New South Wales. 
Philemon phrygius Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., nouv. ed., Vol. XXVII., p. 428, 
1818. 
Anthochcera phrygia Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 322, 
1827. 
Zanthomiza phrygia Swainson, Classif. Birds, Vol. II., p. 326, 1837 ; Gould, Birds Austr., 
pt. xii. (Vol. IV., pi. 48), Sept. 1st, 1843. 
Turdus squamatus “ Vieill.” Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 391, “ 1850 ” (before 
Feb. 1851), orror for “ T. squameus.” 
Meliphaga phrygia phrygia Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 401, 1912. 
Meliphaga phrygia tregdlasi Mathews, ib. , p. 402, Jan. 31st, 1912 : (Mulgrave) Victoria; 
id., Austral Av. Roc., Vol. I., p. 61, 1912. 
Zaivthomiza phrygia phrygia Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 270, 1913 ; Belcher, Birds 
Geelong, p. 335, 1914. 
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