WHITE-EARED HONEY-EATER. 
“ Differs from P. 1. depauperata in being smaller and having a lighter coloured 
head. Kangaroo Island.” 
and 
Ptilotis leucotis torringtoni. 
“Differs from P. 1. leucotis in its very yellow abdomen. Torrington, New 
South Wales (near the Queensland border). 
At the same time I revived Quoy and Gaimard’s name for the South 
Victorian bird, calling it 
Ptilotis leucotis melanodera. 
I then had to rename the Kangaroo Island bird 
Ptilotis leucotis thomasi, 
as through an oversight I had used the same subspecific name twice. 
The Victorian Mallee bird was then named 
Ptilotis leucotis mallee. 
“ Differs from P. 1. melanodera (Q. and G.) in having a smaller white ear patch, 
heavier bill and darker upper-surface.” 
With the necessary transference to the genus Nesoptilotis these were 
arranged in the same way in my 1913 “ List,” seven subspecies being admitted : 
Nesoptilotis leucotis leucotis (Latham). 
New South Wales. 
Nesoptilotis leucotis torringtoni (Mathews). 
Northern New South Wales, Queensland. 
Nesoptilotis leucotis melanodera (Quoy et Gaimard). 
Victoria. 
Nesoptilotis leucotis mallee (Mathews). 
Mallee country of Victoria. 
Nesoptilotis leucotis depauperata (Mathews). 
South Australia. 
Nesoptilotis leucotis thomasi (Mathews). 
Kangaroo Island. 
Nesoptilotis leucotis novcenorcice ( Milli gan). 
(Wongan Hills) South-west Australia. 
and also 
Nesoptilotis leucotis woolundra Mathews. 
(Woolundra) South-west Australia. 
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