Order PASSIERFORMES. 
No. 676. 
Family M.EL1THREPTIDM. 
LOPHOPTILOTIS MELANOPS. 
YELLOW-TUFTED HONEY-EATER. 
(Plate 536.) 
Ttjrdus MELANOPS Latham, Index Ornith. Suppl., p. xl„ (after May) 1801 : New South 
Wales. 
Turdus melanops Latham, Index Ornith. Suppl., p. xl., 1801. 
Muscicapa auricomis Latham, ib., p. xlix., (after May) 1801: New South Wales. 
Muscicapa mystacea Latham, ib., p. LI. : New South Wales. 
Black-eyed Thrash Latham, Gen. Synops. Birds, Suppl. II., p. 181, 1801. 
Yellow-tufted Flycatcher Latham, ib., p. 215 . 
Mustachoe Flycatcher Latham, ib., p. 221. 
Certhia chrysootos Bechstein, Kurze Uebers. Vogel, p. 197, 1811 : New South Wales. 
Certhia auricvlata Shaw, Gen. Zool., Vol. VIII., pt. i., p. 236, 1812 : New South Wales. 
Philemon erythrotis Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., nouv. ed., Vol. XXVII., p. 429, 
Dec. 26th, 1818: Botany Bay, New South Wales. 
Mdliphaga auricomis Swainson, Zool. Ulus., 1st Ser., Vol. I., pi. 43, 1821 ; Vigors and 
Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 313, 1827. 
Muscicapa australis “ Latham MS.” Strickland, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. XI., p. 336, 
May 1843: as synonym of M. auricomis Latham. 
Muscicapa novcehollandice “ Latham MS.,” id., ib., as synonym of M. auricomis Latham 
(not Muscicapa novcehollandice Latham, Index Ornith., p. 478, 1790). 
Ptiloiis melanops Gray, Annals Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. XI., p. 192, 1843; Sharpe, Hist. 
Coll. Nat. Hist. Brit. Mus., Vol. II., p. 131, 1907 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., 
p. 96, 1908 ; Cleland, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 225, 1910 (Food) ; id., ib., Vol. XI., p. 91, 
1911 (Food); Hays, ib., Vol. XX., p. 34, 1920 (N.S.W.). 
Ptilotis auricomis Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xvn. (Vol. IV., pi. 37), Dec. 1st, 1844 ; Ramsay, 
Ibis, p. 243, 1864 ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 511, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. 
Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 189, 1878 ; Gadow, Oat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IX., 
p. 242, 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. 398, 1901 ; A. G. 
Campbell, Emu, Vol. II., p. 14, 1902 (Vic.) ; Hill, ib., Vol. VII., p. 18, 1907 (Vic.); 
North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. II., p. 139, 1907 ; Howe, Emu, Vol. VIII., 
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