Order PASSERIFORMES. Family MELITHREPTIDJE. 
No. 666. 
DOROTHINA ALBILINE AT A. 
WHITE-STRIPE HONEY-EATER. 
(Plate 530.) 
Ptilotis albxltneata H. L. White, Emu, Yol. XVI., pt. 3, p. 165, Jan. 15th, 1917 : King 
River, Northern Territory. 
Ptilotis albilineata H. L. White, Emu, Vol. XVL, p. 165, 1917 ; id., ib., p. 228, and plate xlv. 
Distribution. Northern Territory. 
Adult female. Top of head, hind-neck, sides of neck, and sides of face dusky-brown with 
a white streak along the last; back, rump, upper tail-coverts, scapulars, and lesser 
upper wing-coverts mouse-brown, median, greater series, bastard-wing, primary- 
coverts and flight-quills dark brown, the outer webs of the last fringed with greenish- 
yellow and the inner ones margined with pale buff ; tail hair-brown with obsolete 
cross-bars and pale tips to some of the feathers ; chin and throat whitish; darker 
and inclining to smoke-brown on the fore-neck, breast, and sides of breast; 
abdomen, flanks, and under tail-coverts whitish with pale brown centres to the 
last; axillaries greyish-white; under wing-coverts buff ; under-surface of flight- 
quills dark brown with buff margins ; lower aspect of tail pale brown with white 
shafts. Bill brownish-black, eyes bluish-grey, feet brownish-grey. Total length 
165 nun.; culmen 18, wing 84, tail 74, tarsus 22. Figured. Collected on the 
King River, Northern Territory, on the 14th of October, 1915. 
Sexes alike (?). 
Nest and eggs not described. 
When H. L. White described this, the most recently discovered species 
of “ Ptilotis he gave from McLennan’s notes : “ The bird appears to be confined 
exclusively to the rocky gorges of the sandstone hills, and was seen only in the 
deepest and narrowest ravines. Its call is a loud clear whistle, Tu-u-u- 
heer, tu-u-u-in,’ uttered occasionally. When the call is imitated the birds 
will come within a few feet of the observer, peer all round, and try to locate 
the sound. On one occasion a pair of birds was called up and became xeiy 
excited, flitting through the bushes, and even examining the crevices in the 
sandstone.” 
“Stomach, honey and insect remains, skins and seeds of berries and fruit. 
This is all that is known as yet of this interesting species. 
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