Order PASSERIFORMES. 
Family MELITHREPTIDM. 
No. 674. 
HEMIPTILOTIS COCKERELLI. 
WHITE-STREAKED HONEY-EATER. 
(Plate 535.) 
Ptilotis cockerelli Gould, Birds Austr. Suppl., pt. V., pi. 43, Aug. 1st, 1869 : Cape York, 
Queensland. 
Ptilotis cockerelli Gould, Birds Austr. Suppl. (pt. v.), pi. 43, Aug. 1st, 1869 ; id ., Ann. Mag. 
Nat. Hist., Ser. IV., Vol. IV., p. 109, 1869 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. 
II., p. 189, 1878; Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IX., p. 241, 1884; Ramsay, 
Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 13, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 42, 1899 ; Campbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 397, 1901 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., 
p. 96, 1908; id,, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVTII., p. 408, 1912; Macgillivray, Emu, 
Vol. XI., p. 214, 1912. 
Trichodere cockerelli North, Ibis, Feb. 7th, 1912, p. 120, Jan. ; Mathews, List Birds 
Austr., p. 277, 1913; Macgillivray, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 179, 1914; North, Austr. 
Mus. Sp. Cat., No. 1, Vol. IV., pt. v., p. 435, 1914; Macgillivray, Emu, Vol. XVII., 
p. 206, 1918. 
Hemiptilotis cockerelli Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. I., pt. 5, p. 127, 1912. 
Trichodere cockerelli jardinei Mathews, i&., Vol. III., pt. 4, p. 71, July 21st, 1917: 
Jardine Creek, North Queensland. 
Trichodere cockerelli cockerelli Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. North Queensland, Cape York Peninsula only. 
Adult male. Top of head and lores greyish-black ; sides of the head brownish-black, tinged 
with grey ; elongated ear-tufts golden-orange ; back of the neck, mantle, lower back, 
rump, upper tail-coverts and secondaries olive-brown, each feather with a dusky 
centre; flight-feathers and tail dusky-brown, margined on the outer web with dull 
greenish-yellow, the latter with the inner web rusty-buff; a hue of golden yellow 
feathers on the malar region ; feathers of the chin, tliroat, fore-neck and chest long 
and lanceolate, dark grey at the base, wliite at the extremity ; sides of the breast 
white, with a dusky-black spot in the middle of each feather ; flanks white with a 
dark brown mesial-streak ; middle of the belly and under tail-coverts white ; under¬ 
surface of wings brownish-ash, the inner w r obs with a wide margin of rusty-buff; 
axiUaries and under wing-coverts wliite tinged with yellow r ; under-surface of tail 
brow T nish-ash with wliite shafts. Totallength 160 mm.; culmen 19, wing 66, tarsus 21. 
Figured. Collected on Jardine Creek, Cape York, North Queensland, on the 30th 
of April, 1911, and is the type of T. c. jardinei . 
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