Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 667. 
Family MELITHREPTIDM. 
DOROTHINA VIRESCENS. 
SINGING HONEY-EATER. 
(Plate 531.) 
Melithreptus virescens Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., nouv. ed., Vol. XIV., p. 329, 
Sept. 13th, 1917: Nouvelle Hollande,” coll, by Peron and Lesueur, i.e., at Shark’s 
Bay, West Australia. 
Melithreptus virescens Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., nouv. ed., Vol. XIV., p. 329, 
1817 ; Pucheran, Archives Mus. d’Hist. Nat. (Paris), Vol. VII., p. 349, 1850. 
Ptilotis sonorus* Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1840, p. 160, July 1841: South Australia; 
id., Birds Austr., pt. xx. (Vol. IV., pi. 33), Sept. 1st, 1845; id., Handb. Birds Austr., 
Vol. I., p. 504,1865; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1S77, p. 350 (N.Q.); Gadow, 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IX., p. 234, 1884 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 
Ser. 2, Vol. I., p. 1,092, 1887 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 41, 1899 ; Campbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 390, 1901 ; Hah, Emu, Vol. I., p. 100, 
1902 (N.W.A.); Milligan, ib., Vol. II., p. 73, 1902 (W.A.) ; id., ib., Vol. III., p. 18, 
1903 (W.A.) ; Carter, ib., p. 92 (M.W.A.); Hill, ib., p. 106 (W.A.); id., ib., p. 228, 
1904 (W.A.) ; Milligan, ib., Vol. IV., p. 10, 1904 (W.A.) ; Lawson, ib., p. 131, 1905 
(W.A.); Batey, ib., Vol. VII., p. 9, 1907 (Vic.); A. J. Campbell, ib., p. 92 ; North, 
Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. II., p. 116, 1907 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austr., 
p. 95, 1908 ; Whitlock, Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 183, 1909 (W.A.); Mathews, ib., Vol. IX., 
pp. 14—63 (N.W.A.); Hall, ib., p. 129, 1910 (S.A.); Whitlock, ib., p. 211 (W.A.); 
Macgillivray, ib., Vol. X., pp. 22-33 (N.S.W.); HOI, ib., p. 286, 1911 (N.W.A.); 
Cleland, ib., Vol. XI., p. 91, 1911 (Food) ; id., ib., Vol. XII., p. 16, 1912 (Food); 
Hill, ib., p. 244, 1913 (Central Australia) ; S. A. White, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 31, 1913 
(S.A.), Chandler, ib., p. 43 (Vic.); S. A. White, ib., p. 128, 1914 (S.A.); Macgilhvray, 
ib., p. 178 (Q.); Barnard, ib., Vol. XIV., p. 49, 1914 (N.T.) ; Purnell, ib., Vol. XV., 
p. 44, 1915 (Vic.); Whitlock, ib., Vol. XVTI., p. 175, 1918 (N.W.A.); Campbell, 
ib., Vol. XVIII., p. 5, 1918 (N.W.A.); Morse, ib., p. 69 (Q.); Whitlock, ib., p. 248, 
1919 (W.A.); Campbell, ib., p. 264 (W.A.); Mann, ib., p. 297 (Vic.); Ashby, 
ib., Vol. XX., p. 136, 1921 (W.A.) ; Alexander, ib., p. 167 (W.A.); Whitlock, ib. r 
p. 186 (W.A.) ; Russell, ib., Vol. XXI., p. 142, 1921 (Vic.). 
Mdiphaga sonora Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. I., p. 122, 1846 ; Belcher, Birds Geelong, p. 337, 
* Generally spelt sonora. 
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