Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 672. 
Family MELITHREPTIDM. 
NESOPTILOTIS FLAVICOLLIS. 
YELLOW-THROATED HONEY-EATER. 
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(Plate 534.) 
Melithreptus FLAVICOLLIS Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., nouv. ed., Vol. XIV., p. 325, 
Sept. 13tli, 1817 : “ Nouvelle Hollande ” =King Island. 
Melithre/ptus flavicollis Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., nouv. ed., Vol. XIV., p. 325, 
1817. 
Ptilotis flavigula Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., pi. (72), April 1st, 1838; South 
Tasmania ; id., Birds Austr., pt. xxx. (Vol. IV., pi. 35), March 1st, 1848 ; id., Handb. 
Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 508, 1865; Legge, Papers Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 1886, 
p. 240, 1887. 
Meliphaga flavigula Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. I., p. 122, 1846. 
Melipkaga flavicollis Gray, Handl. Gen. Sp. Birds, Vol. I., p. 156, 1869. 
Ptilotis flavicollis Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 189, 1878 ; id., Tab. List 
Austr. Birds, p. 12, 1888 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 96, 1908. 
Ptilotis flavigularis Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IX., p. 239, 1884; Hall, Key 
Birds Austr., p. 42, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., 
p. 394, 1901 ; A. G. Campbell, Emu, Vol. II., p. 207, 1903 (King Island) ; 
McClymont, ib., Vol. III., p. 57, 1903 ; Littler, ib., p. 86 ; Fletcher, ib. 9 Vol. IV., 
p. 15, 1904 ; A. G. Campbell, ib., p. 123 ; Dove, ib., p. 170 ; id., ib ., Vol. VI., p. 21, 
1906 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. U., p. 125, 1907 ; Littler, Emu, 
Vol. VIII., p. 152, 1909 ; Dove, ib., p. 153 ; Fletcher, ib., Vol. IX., p. 251, 1910 ; 
Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 57, 1910 ; Thompson, Emu, Vol. XI., p. 40, 1911; 
Fletcher, ib., p. 106. 
Ptilotis flavigula Mellor and White, ib., Vol. XII., p. 163, 1913 : Flinders Island; Dove, 
ib., Vol. XVII., p. 53, 1917 ; Lord, ib., Vol. XIX., p. 106, 1919. 
Ptilotis flavicollis flavicollis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 407, 1912. 
Ptilotis flavicollis flavigula Mathews, ib. 
Nesophlotis flavicollis flavicollis Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 275, 1913. 
Nesoptilolis flavicollis flavigula Mathews, ib., p. 276. 
Isesoptilotis flavicollis flindersi Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. III., pt. 3, p. 62, 
April 7tli, 1916 : Flinders Island. 
Distribution. Tasmania and the islands of Bass Straits only (King Island and Flinders 
Group). 
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