Order PASSERIFORMES. 
Family MEL1THREPTIDM. 
No. 673. 
NESOPTILOTIS LEUCOTIS. 
WHITE-EARED HONEY-EATER. 
(Plate 534.) 
Turdus lexjcotis Latham, Index Ornith. Suppl., p. xliv., (after May 30th) 1801 : New 
South Wales. 
Turdus leueotis Latham, Index Ornith. Suppl., p. xliv., 1801. 
White-eared Thr(ush) Latham, Gen. Synops. Birds, Suppl. II., p. 373, 1801. 
Meliphaga leueotis Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Lima. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. NV., p. 314, 1827. 
Ptilotis leueotis Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xxv. (Vol. V., pi. 36), Dec. 1st, 1846 ; id., Handb. 
Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 510, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., 
p. 189, 1878; Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IX., p. 240, 1884; Ramsay, Tab. 
List Austr. Birds, p. 12, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 42, 1899 ; Campbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 396, 1901 ; Hill, Emu, Vol. II., p. 164, 
1903 (Vic.); Hall, ib., Vol. III., p. 43 ; Milligan, ib., p. 234, 1904 ; A. G. Campbell, 
ib., Vol. V., p. 143, 1906 (King Island) ; Hill, ib., Vol. VII., p. 18, 1907 (Vic.) ; 
North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. II., p. 144, 1907 ; Mathews, Handl. 
Birds Austral., p. 96, 1908 ; Gibson, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 75, 1909 (S.W.A.) ; Gleland, 
ib., p. 225, 1910 (Food) ; Howe, ib., p. 233 (Vic.) ; Maddison, ib., p. 255 (Vic.) ; 
Cleland, ib., Vol. XI., p. 91, 1911 (Food) ; S. A. White, ib., Vol. XII., p. 180, 1913 
(Mallacoota); Stone, ib., Vol. XVII., p. HO, 1917 (Vic.) ; D’Ombrain, ib., p. 155, 
1918 (N.S.W.). 
Philedon melanodera Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. de l’Astrol., Zool., Vol. T., p. 191, pi. 8, 
f. 1, (pref. June 29th) 1830 : Western Port, Victoria. 
Ptilotis novcetwrcice Milligan, Emu, Vol. III., pt. IV., p. 226, April 2nd, 1904 . V ongan Hills, 
West Australia ; id., ib., Vol. IV., p. 10, 1904 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 96, 
1908 ; Crossman, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 90, 1909 (W.A.) ; Wilson, ib., Vol. XII., p. 38, 
1912 (S.A.); H. L. White, ib., p. 193 ; Chandler, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 43, 1913 (Vic.). 
Ptilotis leueotis leueotis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 40/, Jan. 31st, 1912. 
Ptilotis leueotis depauperata Mathews, ib. : Coonalpun, South Australia, Mathews, Austral 
Av. Rec., Vol. I., i). 62, 1912. 
Ptilotis leueotis novcenorcice Mathews, ib., p. 408. 
Ptilotis leueotis munna Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. I., pt. 2, p. 50, Apn 
1912 : Kangaroo Island. 
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