Order PASSERIFORMES . 
No. 659. 
Family MERIT HREPTID JE . 
GLYCICMRA CLAUDI. 
PUFF-BACKED HONEY-EATER. 
(Plate 526.) 
Macgillivrayornis claudi Mathews, South Austr. Ornithologist, Vol. I., pt. il, p. 12, 
April 1st, 1914: Claudie River, North Queensland. 
Macgillivrayornis claudi Mathews, South Austr. Ornithologist, Yol. I., pt. n., p. 12, April 
1st, 1914; Macgillivray, Emu, Vol. XV., p. 77, pi. xn., 1915; id ., ib., Vol. XVII., 
p. 204, 1918. 
Glychichcera* claudi Mathews and Iredale, Austral Avian Record, Vol. IV., pts. 4 and 5, 
p. 103, Dec. 16th, 1920. 
Distribution. North Queensland (Claudie River district only). 
Adult female . General colour of the upper-surface olive-green, including the top of the 
head, sides of face, sides of neck, hind-neck, entire back, upper tail-coverts, scapulars, 
and upper wing-coverts; bastard-wing, greater wing-coverts, and flight-quills 
dark brown fringed with olive-green, the last margined with white on the inner 
webs ; tail pale brown : chin and throat greyish-white ; fore-neck and breast pale 
yellow; abdomen, flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts bright yellow ; axillaries 
and under wing-coverts whitish tinged with yellow ; under-surface of flight-quills 
dark brown with whitish on the margins ; lower aspect of tail similar to its upper- 
suface but the shafts of the feathers are white. Eyes brown ; bill, upper dark 
brown, lower light horn, feet slate. Total length 115 mm. ; culmen 13, wing 57, 
tail 40, tarsus 18. Figured. Collected on the Claudie River, North Queensland, on 
the 20th of December, 1913, and is the type of the above. 
The sexes are alike. 
Nest and eggs not described. 
The only note of this very recent addition to the Australian Avifauna 
is that by the collector, Dr. Macgillivray, who wrote : “ On the day following 
our arrival at camp on the Claudie, Air. McLennan and I came across this 
species in the scrub. It was Mr. McLennan’s keen ear for bird-notes that 
first detected one that was strange to him and led to his finding the birds 
feeding high up in the scrub, where their small size and subdued colouring 
made it no easy matter to make out what they were. We, however, soon 
had two of them in our hands, and immediately saw that they were new and 
* Also spelt Glyciclicera. 
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