Order PASSERIFORMES. 
Family MELITHREPTIDAZ. 
No. 663. 
PARAPTILOTIS FUSCA. 
FUSCOUS HONEY-EATER. 
(Plate 529.) 
Meliphaga fusca Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. n., pi. (26), April 1st, 183* : New 
South Wales. 
[Certhia chrysalis Latham, Index. Omith. Suppl p xxxviii 1801 (after May 30th) Founded on 
Watling Drawing No. ll7=Sydney, New South Wales; Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., \ol.pts. 2-3, 
p. 73, 1923. 
Certhia cana Bechstein, Kurze Uebers VOgel, p. 197, 1811 (prof. April 12th, 1810) : Sydney. 
Certhia xanthotis Shaw, Gen. Zool., Vol. VIII., p. 244 (pt. I.), 1812 : Sydney.) 
Meliphaga fusca Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. il, pi. (26), April 1st, 183* : Sydney; 
Wolstenholme, Emu, Vol. XXII., p. 154, 1912. 
Ptilotis fusca Gould, Birds Austr., pt. iv. (Vol. IV., pi 44), Sept. 1st, 1841; id., Handb. 
Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 520, 1865; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1875, 
p. 596, 1876 ; id., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 189, 1878; Gadow, Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IX., p. 229, 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. 385, 1901; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. II., p. 114, 1907; 
Hill, Emu, Vol. VII., p. 19, 1907 (Vic.); Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., 
p. 95, 1908 ; E. Barnard, Emu, Vol. XI., p. 125, 1911 (Q.) ; Cleland, ib., \ol. XII., 
p. 16, 1912 (Food); Campbell and Barnard, ib., Vol. XVTI., p. 33, 1917 (N.Q.); 
Hays! ib., Vol. XX., p. 34, 1920 (N.S.W.). 
Ptilotis minuta Pelzeln, GSstern Freg. Novara, Birds, p. 56, 1865 : Sydney, New South Wales. 
Ptilotis fusca fusca Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 404, Jan. 31st, 1912. 
Ptilotis fusca dingi Mathews, ib. : (Murray Flats) South Australia; id., Austr. Av. Rec., 
Vol. I., p. 62, 1912. 
Ptilotis fusca daivsoni Mathews, ib. ; Dawson River, Queensland; id., Austr. Av. Rec., 
Vol. I., p. 62, 1912. 
Paraptilotis fusca fusca Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 2/2, 1913. 
Paraptilotis fusca dawsoni Mathews, ib. 
Paraptilotis fusca dingi Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. Eastern Australia from Queensland to South Australia. 
Adult female. General colour of the uppor-surface olive-brown, including the top of the 
head, sides of face, hind-neck, sides of neck, back, rump, upper tail-coverts, scapulars, 
and upper wing-coverts; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and flight-quills dark 
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