YELLOW-FACED HONEY-EATER 
ParaptUotis chrysops beaconsfieldi Mathews, ib. ; Belcher, Birds Geelong, p. 335, 1914. 
ParaptUotis chrysops samueli Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 273. 
Ptilotis barroni Campbell and Barnard, Emu, Vol. XVII., p. 33, 1917 (N.Q.). 
Distribution. Eastern Australia from Cairns, North Queensland, to Eastern South 
Australia. 
Adult female. General colour of the upper-surface olive-brown, including the top of the 
head, hind-neck, sides of neck, entire back, upper tail-coverts, scapulars, wings and 
tail ; median and greater upper wing-coverts rather paler at the tips, which indicates 
a double wing-bar; flight-quills dark brown fringed with dull green on the outer 
webs and margined with buff y- white on the inner ones ; tail uniform pale brown ; 
lores and feathers above and behind the eye black; space in front and below the 
eye yellow, extending on to the ear-coverts where it becomes almost white; an 
indicated line of wfliite on the sides of the crown ; moustacial streak black, which 
is more or less fringed with white on the sides of the throat ; chin, throat, fore¬ 
neck, breast, sides of breast, and sides of body dusky-grey, becoming paler and 
inclining to whitish on the abdomen and under tail-coverts ; thighs rust-brown; 
axillaries grey ; under wing-coverts pale buff ; under-surface of flight-quills hair- 
brown with pale buff margins ; lower aspect of tail pale greyish-brown with white 
shafts to the feathers. Eyes brown, feet and bill black. Total length 152 mm. ; 
culmen 11, wing 75, tail 64, tarsus 21. Figured. Collected at Olinda, Victoria, 
on the 10th of September, 1911. 
Adult male similar to the adult female. 
Male, immature. General colour of the upper-surface dark ochreous-brown, including the 
top of the head, hind-neck, sides of neck, back, rump, scapulars, and lesser upper 
wing-coverts ; remainder of wing-coverts and outer aspect of flight- quills bronze- 
green, inner webs of the last dark brown margined with buff ; upper tail-coverts 
inclining to coffee-brown; tail-feathers pale brown rather paler on the inner 
margins and slightly fringed with green on the outer ones ; lores, a line over the eye, 
which extends along the sides of the crown, black ; a patch of yellow behind the 
eye; moustacial streak and ear-coverts black, the latter tipped with white ; chin 
and throat grey ; fore-neck, breast, and sides of body ochreous-brown ; middle of 
abdomen paler and inclining to whitish ; thighs, under tail-coverts, axillaries, 
under wing-coverts, and inner margins of flight-quills below buff, remainder of 
quill-lining dark brown ; lower aspect of tail pale brown with wdiite shafts. Eyes 
brown, feet slate, bill horn. Collected at Olinda, Victoria, on the 15th of February, 
1913. 
Juvenile . General colour of the upper-surface ochreous-brown, including the top of the 
head, hind-neck, back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and upper wing-coverts ; flight- 
quills dark brown margined with yellowish-green on the outer webs ; tail pale 
hair-brown; lores like the crown; moustacial streak black; ear-coverts lemon- 
yellow ; chin and throat greyish-white; remainder of the uncler-surface dull 
ochreous-buff including the breast, abdomen, sides of body, thighs, and under tail- 
coverts ; under wing-coverts pale buff like the inner margins of the flight-quills 
below, remainder of quill-lining pale hair-brown ; lower aspect of tail similar to 
its upper-surface. Collected at Box Hill, Victoria, on the 1st of December, 1895. 
Eggs. Two to three eggs form the clutch. A clutch of tw r o eggs taken at the Lane Cove 
River, near Sydney, New South Wales, on the 5th of September, 1915, is of a 
beautiful pinkish-buff, spotted and speckled (particularly at the larger ends) with 
rich reddish-chestnut and purplish-grey. Swollen ovals in shape; surface of 
shell fine and rather glossy. 19 by 13-14 mm. 
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