Order PASSERIFORMES. Family MELITHREPTIDM 
No. 661. 
PTILOTINA ANALOGA. 
YELLOW-FRONTED HONEY-EATER. 
(Plate 528.) 
[Ptilotis ANALOGA Reichenbach, Handb. Spec. Omitk., Abtb. II., Handb. Meropinas, 
Vol. I., p. 103 (leones Cont., No. IX., March 1st, 1852), based solely on Hombron 
et Jacquinot, reproduced on pi. cccclxvh, 3,332 : Oceanien=S.W. New Guinea. 
Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IX., p. 227, 1884.] 
Ptilotis notata Gould, Annals Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. III., Vol. XX., p. 269, Oct. 1st, 1867: 
Cape York, Queensland. 
Ptilotis notata Gould, Annals & Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. II., Vol. XX., p. 269, 1867; id., 
Birds Austr. Suppl., pi. 41 (pt. v.), Aug. 1st, 1869; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 
Vol. II., p. 189, 1878; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 12 (note), 1888; 
Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 383, 1901; (?) Le Souef, Emu, 
Vol. II., p. 147, 1903 (N.T.); Macgillivray, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 178, 1914 (N.Q.); 
id., ib., Vol. XVII., p. 205, 1918 (N.Q.); Campbell, ib., Vol. XX., p. 63, pi. v., 1920. 
Ptilotis analoga notata Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 403, Jan. 31st, 1912. 
Ptilotis analoga mixta Mathews, ib : Johnston River, North Queensland. 
Ptilotina analoga notata Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 271, 1913; id.. South Austr. Om., 
Vol. 3, p. 208, 1915. 
Ptilotina analoga mixta Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 271, 1913. 
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Distribution. Northern Queensland from Cape York to Cairns. 
Adult , male . General colour of the upper-surface olive-green including the top of the head, 
sides of the crown, hind-neck, sides of neck, back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and 
upper wing-coverts ; flight-quills dark brown fringed with bronze-green on the 
outer web and pale buff on the inner margins ; tail brown fringed on the outer webs 
with bronze-green ; lores black like the patch below the eye ; ear-coverts sulphur- 
yellow' ; under-surface greyish-olive including the cliin, tliroat, breast, abdomen, 
sides of body, and under tail-coverts ; thighs, rust-brown ; axillaries like the sides 
of the body ; marginal under wing-coverts pale buff, the remainder pale yellow 
like the inner margins of the quills below, remainder of the quill-lining dark brown; 
lower aspect of tail pale brown, with a glossy appearance and white shafts. Bill 
black, feet slate, eyes brown. Total length 180 mm. ; culmen 17, wing 82, tail 73, 
tarsus 25. Figured. Collected on the Johnston River, North Queensland, on the 
22nd of June, 1900, and is the type of Ptilotis analoga mixta . 
Adult female similar to the adult male. 
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