THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA 
The following additions should be considered on the pages mentioned:— 
Gliciphala melanops. Tawny-fronted Honey-eater, p. 350. 
Nearly adult female. Fore-part of head to a line behind the eye cinnamon; nape, hind- 
neck, sides of neck and mantle drab-grey ; back and scapulars dark brown with 
broad olive margins to the feathers ; rump and upper tad-coverts dull ash-grey; 
upper wing-coverts blackish with pale buff margins ; bastard-wing similar, but 
the buff edging much narrower ; primary-coverts and flight-quills also blackish 
with olive edgings on the outer webs becoming greyish-w r hite on the innermost 
secondaries, the inner margins buff ; tail dark brown slightly paler on the edges 
of the feathers ; lores and a superciliary streak which extends along the sides of the 
crowm white; rictal bristles, feathers in front of the eye, eye-ring, ear-coverts, 
sides of throat and sides of breast black with pale tips to the ear-coverts ; a slightly 
indicated dark moustacial streak; chin white with black hair-like tips to the 
feathers and a patch of yellow' feathers in the middle ; low r er throat, middle of 
breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts white inclining to pale grey on the last; 
sides of body drab-grey ; axillaries, under wing-coverts, and inner margins of flight- 
quills below cinnamon-rufous, remainder of quill-lining glossy blackish-brown; 
lower aspect of tail greyish-brown with pale shafts. Eyes rich brown, feet and 
bill blackish, throat w'hitish. Total length 160 mm. ; culmen 17, wing 78, tail 68, 
tarsus 21. Collected at Coonalpyn, 90-mile desert, South Australia, on the 17th 
of May, 1911. 
Immature female. Top of head, hind-neck, back, scapulars, rump, and upper tail- 
coverts blackish-brown with w'hitish shaft-streaks to the feathers, those on the 
rump have dark lead-grey bases ; lesser and median upper wing-coverts dark 
brown with pale tips, the greater series margined with buff 3 r -wliite; primary- 
coverts and flight-quills blackish-browm with yellowish-green edges to the outer 
w'ebs and buff margins to the inner webs of the latter ; tail hair-brown with pale 
edgings to the feathers ; ear-coverts uniform dusky-brown becoming paler and 
inclining to whitish on the hinder part of the face ; lores and eye-ring duslry-brown ; 
cheeks whitish ; dun and throat pale lemon-vellow with hair-like tips to the 
leathers on the former ; a slightly indicated dark moustacial streak; fore-neck, 
sides of neck, breast and sides of body dusky-brown with whitish elongated centres 
to the feathers ; thighs dusky ; abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts greyish- 
wliite ; axillaries, under wing-coverts, and margins of flight-quills below cinnamon- 
rulous. remainder of quill-lining dark brow r n ; low r er aspect of tail similar but rather 
paler. Eves dark browrn, feet bluey-grey, bill brown. Collected at Middle 
Harbour, Sydney, New South Wales, on the 9th of April, 1910. 
Immature female (younger). General colour of the upper-surface dark brown with white 
shaft-lines to the feathers on the top of the head, back, rump, and upper tail-coverts; 
upper wing-coverts also dark brown margined with buff ; flight-quills blackish 
edged with yellowish-green on the outer webs and more broadly on the inner ones 
with buff ; tail dark brown with pale edgings to the outer and inner w r ebs; lores 
and feathers in front of the eye black and bristly in texture ; ear-coverts uniform 
dusky-brown; cheeks wlutish-yellow intermixed with dusky-brown; chin and 
throat lemon-yellow with dark hair-like tips to many of the feathers ; fore-neck, 
breast, abdomen and sides of body blackish-brown with wliitish elongated centres 
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