Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 671. 
Family ME LI TIIREPT1D JE . 
CALOPTILOTIS MACLEAYANA. 
YELLOW-ST REARED HONEY-EATER, 
(Plate 533.) 
Ptilotis macleayan.a Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. I., p. 10, April 27th, 1875 : 
North-east Coast Australia =Cookt own fide A. J. Campbell. 
Ptilotis macleayana Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. I., p. 10, 1875 ; id ., Proc. Zool. 
Soc. (Lond.), 1875, p. 595, 1876 ; id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 13, 1888 ; Hall, 
Key Birds Austr., p. 41, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., 
p. 389, 1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. II., p. 120, 1907 ; Mathews, 
Handl. Birds Austral., p. 95, 1908 ; Broadbent, Emu, Vol. X., p. 238, 1910 ; 
Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 405, 1912 ; Campbell, Emu, Vol. XIII., 
p. 69, pi. xm., f. 12, 1913 (Eggs) ; Campbell and Barnard, ib ., Vol. XVII., p. 33, 
1917. 
Ptilotis fiavostriata Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1875, p. 315, Aug. 1st: Rockingham 
Bay, Queensland; id., Birds New Guinea, pt. n. (Vol. ILL, pi. 50), Jan. 1st, 1876 ; 
Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IX., p. 232, 1884. 
Caloptilotis macleayana Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 275, 1913. 
Caloptilotis macleayana johnstoni Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. III., pt. 3, p. 62, 
April 7th, 1916 : Cairns, Queensland. 
Caloptilotis macleayana macleayana Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. North Queensland (Cooktown to Herbert River). 
Adult male. Top of the head and sides of the neck black; back of the neck blackish, spotted 
with white at the extremity of each feather; upper back blackish-brown with rounded 
spots of yellowish ; mantle and lower back smoky-brown with a wedge-shaped 
mark of brownish-buff at the tip ; lower back and rump smoky-brown, narrowly 
margined with olive ; wing-coverts smoky-brown like the lower back; wing- 
feathers and scapulars asli-brown slightly margined on the outer web with yellowish- 
olive ; tail-feathers smoky-brown, narrowly margined with yellowish-olive ; lores 
and feathers surrounding the eye light reddish-chestnut ; feathers behind the ear- 
coverts composed of golden-yellow feathers ; chin and throat yellowish-white ; upper 
neck and chest yellowish-olive, each feather terminating in a yellowish-white 
elongated spot; breast yellowish-white with distinct blackish spots across each 
feather; lower abdomen smoky-brown ; under wing-coverts and axillaries lemon- 
yellow ; imier lining of quills reddish-buff ; eyes brown, feet bluish, bill black. Total 
length 182 mm. ; culmen 24, wing 89, tail 72, tarsus 28. Figured. Collected on the 
Barron River, near Cairns, North Queensland, on the 11th of June, 1912. 
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