Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 664. 
Family MELITIIREPT1 DR. 
PARAPTILOTIS CHRYSOPS. 
YELLOW-FACED HONEY-EATER. 
(Plate 529.) 
Sylvia chrysops Latham, Index Ornith. Suppl., p. liv., (after May 30th) 1801: New 
South Wales, based on Watling Drawing No. 134. 
Sylvia chrysops Latham, Index Ornith. Suppl., p. liv., 1801. 
Black-cheeked Warbler Latham, Gen. Synops. Birds, Suppl. II., p. 248, 1801. 
Melithreptus gilvicapillus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. XIV., p. 329, Sept. 13th, 
1817 : “ Nouvelle Hollandc,” i.e., New South Wales. 
Meliphaga chrysops Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 315, 1827. 
Ptilotis chrysops Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., pi. (26), 1S3S; id., Birds Austr., pt, xxi. 
(Vol. IV., pi. 45), March 1st, 1S46 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 521, 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. 236, 1884; 
Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 13, 1888; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 42, 1899; 
Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 392, 1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. 
Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. II., p. Ill, 1907; Hill, Emu, Vol. VII., p. 19, 1907 (Vic.); 
Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 96, 1908; Cleland, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 225, 
1910 (Food) ; Maddison, ih., p. 256 (Vic.); Ingle, ib., Vol. X., p. 124 (Vic.); 
Broadbent, ib., p. 238, 1910 (N.Q.); Dove, ib., Vol. XI., p. 42, 1911 (Vic.); 
Agnew, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 96, 1913 (Q.); S. A. White, ib., Vol. XIV., p. 143,1915 
(Mallacoota); Le Souef and Macpherson, ib., Vol. XX., p. 90, 1920 (N.S.W.). 
Meliphaga trivirgata “ Vorr.” Gray, Handl. Gen. Sp. Birds, B.M., Vol. I., p. 156, 1869, 
as synonym of Sylvia chrysops Latham. 
Ptilotis chrysops chrysops Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 406, Jan. 31st, 1912. 
Ptilotis chrysops barroni Mathews, ib. : Cairns, North Queensland. 
Ptilotis chrysops beaconsfieldi Mathews, ib., p. 407 : (Beaconsfield) Victoria. 
Ptilotis subchrysops Campbell, Emu, Vol. XII., pt. I., p. 19, July 1st, 1912 (ex Bull. Roy. 
Austr. Orn. Union, No. 3, May 21st, 1912 (?) unpublished) : Bellenden Ivor, 
Queensland; H. L. White, ib., p. 45 (Eggs). 
Ptilotis chrysops sarnudi Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. I., pt. 4, p. 99, Sept. 18th, 
1912 : 50 miles north of Adelaide, South Australia. 
Paraptilotis chrysops chrysops Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 272, 1913. 
Paraptilotis chrysops barroni Mathews, ib., p. 273. 
