Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 670. 
Family ME LI THREPTI DM. 
DOROTHINA FRENATA. 
BRIDLED HONEY-EATER. 
(Plate 533.) 
Ptilotis frenata Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1874, p. 603, April 1st, 1875: 
Cardwell, North Queensland. 
Ptilotis frenata Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1874, p. 603, 1875 ; id ., ib ., 1875, p. 596, 
1876 ; id., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 189, 1878 ; Gould, Birds New 
Guinea, pt. n. (Vol. III., pi. 49), Jan. 1st, 1876; Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 
Vol. IX., p. 231, 1884; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 13, 1888; Hall, Key 
Birds Austr., p. 41, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 388, 
1901; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. II., p. 123, 1907 ; Mathews, Handl. 
Birds Austral., p. 97, 1908; Broadbent, Emu, Vol. X., p. 238, 1910; Mathews, 
Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 413, 1912 ; Campbell and Barnard, Emu, Vol. XVTL, 
p. 34, 1917. 
Meliphaga frenata Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 275, 1913. 
Meliphaga frenata petersoni Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. III., pt. 3, p. 62, April 
7th, 1916 : Peterson’s Pocket, Cairns, North Queensland. 
Meliphaga frenata frenata Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. North Queensland. (Cairns and Cardwell districts only.) 
Adult female. General colour of the upper-parts dark reddish-brown ; wings ashy-brown, 
margined on the outer web with yellowish-green and on the inner web with reddish- 
buff ; tail brownish-olive, lores blackish-brown; a ring of white feathers tipped 
with black surrounding the eye: a tuft of golden-yellow feathers behind the ear- 
coverts succeeded below by a glossy-black patch ; chin smoky-brown; throat smoky- 
brown with an indistinct bar of dull yellowish-olive across the middle; remainder 
of the under-surface of the body smoky-grey ; under w f ing-coverts reddish-buff; 
under-surface of flight-feat hers reddish-buff. Eyes black, feet slate, bill with yellow 
base and rest black. Bare skin yellow. Total length 190 mm. ; culmen 16, wing 97, 
tail 81, tarsus 24. Figured. Collected on the Barron River, North Queensland, 
on the 2nd of March, 1913. 
Adult male. Similar to the adult female. 
Eggs. Two eggs usually form the clutch. A clutch of two eggs taken in the Barron River 
scrubs at Tinaroo, North Queensland, on the 12th of November, 1908, is of a white 
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