SCALY-THROATED HONEY-EATER. 
“ His field-note says that the species is plentiful in the mangroves bordering 
the Burnett River, where during the breeding-season the Honey-eaters were 
continuously calling and singing.” 
Cornwall later wrote from Mackay, North Queensland: “ The Easciated 
Honey-eater is another robust and noisy species. Although their favourite 
haunts are the mangrove patches on the islands close to the coast, they are often 
met with along the creeks and rivers, whilst odd pairs may be noted in some of 
our town gardens. Nests have been noted at Green Island, some twelve miles 
to the north of Mackay, where they are particularly abundant; and on 18th 
November, whilst visiting Victor Island, I found a pair of beautiful fresh eggs, 
and also saw a nest containing two young birds, which were nearly fledged. 
That their nesting-season is a much extended one is proved by the fact that 
Mr. H. Neilson, whilst visiting a Darter and Cormorant rookery in Thompson’s 
Creek during the last Easter holidays, found fresh eggs of the Fasciated Honey- 
eater.” 
Accepting Moreton Bay, Queensland, as the type locality of the species, 
I named in my “ Reference List” in 1912 
Ptilotis fasciogularis brunnescens. 
“ Darker than P. /. fasciogularis, especially on the under-surface, and the upper- 
surface more brownish.” 
North Queensland. 
In my 1913 “ List ” I synonymised this and referred the species to 
Meliphaga, but I would now admit the northern form as valid, allowing: 
Dorothina fasciogularis fasciogularis (Gould). 
Islands north of Moreton Bay, Queensland. 
Dorothina fasciogularis brunnescens (Mathews). 
North Queensland (Burnett River). 
A Correction.—On p. 191, under the genus Lichmera, line 2, for “ p. 2, 
Jan. 2nd, ” read “ p. 263, Feb. 4th.” 
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