REGENT HONEY-EATER. 
Zanthomiza phrygia tregellasi Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 270, 1913 ; Ashby, Emu, 
Vol. XVI., p. 194, 1917 (S.A.). 
Distribution. New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia. 
Adult male. General colour, both on the upper- and under-surface, black with white or 
yellow margins to the feathers ; top of head, chin, throat, and neck all round black ; 
eye-region bare; mantle and upper back black margined with yellowish-white ; 
lower back and rump for the most part whitish with black centres to the feathers ; 
upper tail-coverts black, margined with yellowish-white ; lesser and median upper 
•wing-coverts slightly fringed with yellowish -wliito like the bastard-wing; the 
greater series and primary-coverts extensively tipped with yellow', the first primary 
slightly marked with yellow on the outer w r eb, the second, third, fourth, and fifth 
marked with yellow on both webs of the subterminal portion, the sixth, seventh, 
and eighth only very slightly marked with white on the outer w r ebs at the tip, the 
remainder of the flight-quills broadly margined with yellow on the outer webs and 
tips of the terminal portion ; tail—the middle feathers black tipped with yellow 
and the lateral ones yellow with black bases ; breast, abdomen, and sides of body 
marked with black and white ; under tail-coverts pale yellow with dark lanceolate 
markings at the base ; axillaries and under wing-coverts yellow r , intermixed with 
dark brown on the latter ; under-surface of flight-quills dark brown marked with 
yellow and white ; low'er aspect of tail dark brown and yellow ; eyes brown, bill— 
upper mandible black, low r er brown. Skin round eye yellowish. Total length 
223 mm. ; culmen 19, wing 118, tail 90, tarsus 22. Figured. Collected at Mulgrave, 
Victoria, on the 3rd of December, 1908, and is the type of M. p. tregellasi . 
Imimture female. Top of head, lores, and nape dark dusky-brown becoming somewhat paler 
on the hind-neck and upper back, some of the feathers on the latter blackish margined 
with yellowish-white ; lower back, rump and upper tail-coverts pale smoke-brown 
with whitish margins to the last ; scapulars similar to the low r er back ; lesser upper 
wing-coverts dusky-browm; the greater series, bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and 
flight-quills blackish-brown margined with yellow, some of the outer primaries 
have a space of yellow on the inner webs of the subapical portion ; base of tail and 
middle feathers "blackish-brown, the outer feathers for the greater portion yellow 
with a dark shaft-streak which becomes obsolete towards the tip ; chin, upper throat, 
and sides of neck blackish ; a small spot of lemon-yellow' behind the ear-coverts ; 
lower throat and fore-neck bronze-brown; breast, abdomen, sides of body, and 
under tail-coverts whitish, tinged with yellow ; axillaries and under wing-coverts 
similar; under-surface of flight-quills dark brown and yellow ; low T er aspect of 
tail for the most part yellow with dark brown at the base and on the middle feathers. 
Collected in Victoria on the 17th of February, 1989. 
Female (juvenile). Top of head, nape, lores, and ear-coverts black ; back and scapulars 
blackish-brown with pale margins and whitish shaft-lines to some of the feathers ; 
upper tail-coverts smoke-brown ; wings blackish with sulphur-yellow margins to 
the feathers—-more broadly on the secondary quills ; middle tail-feathers blackish- 
brown, the lateral ones pale sulphur-yellow ; chin and throat dusky-brown , fore¬ 
neck, breast, and sides of body smoke-brown with white shaft-streaks ; abdomen 
and under tail-coverts yellowish-white like the marginal under wing-coverts , quill¬ 
lining dark brown; thighs dusky ; low'er aspect of tail for the most part sulphur- 
yellow. Bill brown, gape yellow, eyes brown, bare skin light brown, feet gre\isi- 
brown. Figured. Collected at Baysw'ater, Victoria, on the 26th of December, 
1908. 
Eggs. Two to three eggs generally form the clutch. A clutch of two eggs ^ken ^ 
Belltrees, Upper Hunter River, New South Wales, on the 12th of October, , is 
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