Order PASSERIFORMES. Family MEL1THREPTIDJE 
No. 675. 
LOPHOPTILOTIS CASSIDIX. 
HELMETED HONEY-EATER. 
(Plate 536.) 
Ptilotis CASSIDIX Gould, Birds Austr. Suppl., pt. rv., pi. 39, (before ?) Dec. 1st, 1867 : 
Western Port, Victoria. 
Ptilotis cassidix Jardine, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1866, p. 558, n.n. ; Gould, Birds Austr. 
Suppl., pt. rv., pi. 39, before (?) Dec. 1st, 1867 : (Western Port ?) Victoria; Ramsay, 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 189, 1878 ; Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 
Vol. IX., p. 243, 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. 400, 
1901; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. II., p. 142, 1907 ; Mathews, 
Handl. Birds Austral., p. 96, 1908 ; F. E. Wilson, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 168, 1910 ; 
Wilson and Chandler, ib. 9 Vol. X., p. 37, 1910 ; Wilson, {&., Vol. XI., p. 252, 1912 ; 
Stone, Vol. XVI., p. 105, 1916. 
Ptilotis leadbeateri McCoy, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. III., Vol. XX., pt. ii., p. 442, Dec. 1st, 
1867: Western Port, Victoria ; Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 408, 1912. 
Lophoptilotis leadbeateri Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 277, 1913. 
Distribution. Victoria only. 
Adult female. Top of the head golden-yellow, with blackish bases to the feathers ; back 
of the neck, mantle, rump and wing-coverts dark olive ; upper tail-coverts lighter 
olive; primaries and secondaries ash-brown, margined on the outer web with 
yellowish-green; middle tail-feathers ash-brown, margined on the outer web 
with greenish-yellow, remainder of tail ash-brown with a large yellowish-white 
spot at the tip of each feather ; lores, feathers surrounding the eye glossy black, 
sides of the head with* a patch of glossy black feathers ; an elongated tuft of golden- 
yellow feathers behind the ear ; feathers of the throat golden-yellow, with white 
bases, divided down the middle by a line of black feathers tipped with golden- 
yellow ; chest golden-yellow becoming paler over the belly, sides and under tail- 
coverts ; under-surface of tail dark olive, each feather except the middle pair broadly 
tipped on their inner webs with pale yellow ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 
yellow, slightly peppered with black; under-surface of wings greyish-brown, 
margined on the inner web with yellowish-buff, and with greenish-olive on the 
outer web. Bill and feet black. Total length 198 mm. ; culrnen 13, wing 94, tail 
101, tarsus 25. Figured. Collected in Victoria. 
Adult male similar to the above. 
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