Order PASSERIFORMES. Family MERIT HREPTIDM. 
No. 669. 
DOROTHINA FASCIOGULARIS. 
SCALY-THROATED HONEY-EATER. 
(Plate 532.) 
Ptilotis FASCIOGULARIS Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1851, p. 285, June 14th, 1854 : 
Islands north of Moreton Bay, Queensland. 
Ptilotis fasciogularis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soe. (Lond.), 1851, p. 285, 1854; id., Birds Austr. 
Suppl., pi. 40 (pt. ii), Sept. 1st, 1855 ; id ., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 507, 1865 ; 
Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1875, p. 595, 1876 ; id., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 
Vol. II., p. 189, 1878; Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IX., p. 240, 1884 ; 
Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 12, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 42, 1899 ; 
Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 395, 1901 ; id.. Emu,* Vol. IV., 
p. 137, 1905; id., ib ., Vol. VI., p. 136, 1907; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., 
p. 96, 1908; Cornwall, Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 140, 1909; Broadbent, ib., Vol. X., 
p.238, 1910; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. IV., pt. 5, p. 434, 1914. 
Ptilotis fasciogularis fasciogularis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 407, Jan. 31st, 1912. 
Ptilotis fasciogularis brunnescens Mathews, ib. : Burnett River, North Queensland. 
Meliphaga fasciogularis Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 275, 1913. 
Melij)haga fasciogularis fasciogularis Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. Queensland, mainly on the islands off the coast. 
Adult male. Top of the head, neck, mantle, back, rump, upper tail-coverts and secondaries 
ashy-brown with darker centres to the feathers; wings ashy-brown, margined on 
the outer web with yellowish-green and on the inner web with buff ; tail similarly 
coloured; lores and feathers surrounding the eye blackish-brown; ear-coverts 
primrose-yellow; a tuft of silvery-white feathers behind the ear-coverts, chin and 
throat smoky-brown, each feather margined with golden-yellow; chest smoky- 
brown, breast and sides of the body yellowish-white, each feather with a broad 
marking of smoky-brown ; quills below ash-brown, widely margined on the inner 
web with tawny-buff ; tail below olive, shafts of the feathers white. Bill black, 
feet bluish-grey. Total length 195 mm. ; culmen 16, wing 94, tail 85, tarsus 27. 
Figured. Collected on the Burnett River, North Queensland, in November, 1892, 
and is the type of P. f. brunnescens. 
Adult feinale. Similar to the adult male. 
Eggs. Two eggs form the clutch. A pair taken at Victor Island, Mackay, North Queens¬ 
land, on the 18th of November, 1906, is of a pinkish-buff ground-colour, marked 
• cf. Viet. Nat., Vol. XXI.. p. 168. 
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