YELLOW-EARED HONEY-EATER. 
“ C. cinereo-fusca subtus alba, macula pone aures ovata aurea, alteraque, 
superius nigra. 
“ Yellow-eared Creeper, Gen. Syn. Snp., II., p. 169, 33. Habitat in Nova 
Hollandia, magnitudo Fringillce : lingua setacea. 
“ Yellow-eared Creeper. Size of a Hedge-Sparrow ; length six inches ; 
bill and legs black ; tongue bristly ; irides dirty pale red ; the plumage on the 
upper parts of the body pale dirty brown, beneath white ; below the ear an 
oval spot of a fine yellow colour, and above it a smaller one of black. Inhabits 
New South Wales.” 
When G. R. Gray examined the Lambert drawings he wrote : 
“ Certhia chrysotis Lath. .. .. .. Ptilotis chrysotis. 
Very similar to Vieill. O.D. t. 84. 
Philemon chrysotis, Vieill. ; Ptilotis 
jusca Gould; nec Meliphaga chrysotis 
Lewin; Ptilotis chrysotis Gould .. .. Ptilotis lewinii Sw.” 
As noted above Gould accepted the latter item, but queried the identity of 
Certhia chrysotis Lath, with his own P. fusca. 
The Watling drawings revived this matter, as Sharpe concluded (Hist. 
Coll. Nat. Hist. Brit. Mils., Vol. II., p. 129, 1906) : 
“No. 115. This figure represents Ptilotis lewini of Gadow’s ‘Catalogue’ 
IX., p. 229, and the latter species should, therefore, stand as P. chrysotis 
(Lath.). 
“ Watling’s note: ‘ One-half the natural size. This bird, which is not 
very common in New South Wales, has one single sweet wdiistling note. It 
is very shy and seldom seen, and, as most small birds in this country, it has 
a feathered tongue for the purpose of catching flies, etc., and sucking honey 
from the flowers and plants on which most of them five.’ 
“No. 116. Missing. 
“No. 117. Yellow-eared Creeper. Latham has confused this figure with 
the foregoing. It seems to have been drawn from a specimen of Ptilotis 
fusca of Gould. This figure may have been taken from a bird in worn 
plumage. 
“ No. 118. Yellow-eared Creeper. Here again Latham has confounded 
a very different species, and there can be no doubt, I think, that the bird 
figured is not Ptilotis chrysotis (M. 115), but is Sylvia chrysops Lath., Ind. 
Orn. Suppl., p. liv. (Black-cheeked Warbler (not Honey-eater, as Gadow 
quotes it, of Latham Gen. Syn., Suppl. II., p. 248). 
“ Watling’s note is : ‘ Natural size. This bird has a pleasant whistling 
note.’ 
“No. 119. Yellow-eared Creeper. This is also identified by Latham 
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