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Order PASSERIFORMES. Family ME LI THREPTIDJE. 
No. 677. 
LICHENOSTOMUS CRATITIUS. 
WATTLE-CHEEKED HONEY-EATER. 
(Plate 537.) 
Ptilotis cratottxs Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1840, p. 160, July 1841 : Interior 
South Australia. 
Ptilotis cratitius Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1840, p. 160, 1841 ; id., Birds Austr., 
pt. xvi. (Yol. IV., pi. 38), Sept. 1st, 1844 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 513, 
1865; 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. 12, 1888; 
Hall, Key Birds Austr., ,p. 42, 1899 ; CampbeH, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, 
Vol. I., p. 401, 1901 ; Milligan, Emu, Vol. III., pp. 11-18, 1903 (W.A.) ; id., ib., 
Vol. IV., pp. 6-10, 1904 (W.A.) ; A. G. CampbeH, ib., Vol. V., p. 143, 1906 (Kangaroo 
Island); North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. II., p. 147, 1907; Mathews, 
Hand!. Birds Austral., p. 96, 1908; Howe, Emu, Vol. VIII., pp. 132,5,7, 1909 (Vic.); 
id., ib., Vol. IX., p. 233, 1910 (Vic.) ; Whitlock, ib., Vol. X., p. 311, 1911 (W.A.) ; 
id,, ib., Vol. XI., pp. 240-2, 1912 (W.A.) ; Cleland, ib., Vol. XII., p. 16, 1912 (Food) ; 
S. A. White, ib., p. 180, 1913 (S.A.) ; id., ib., p. 270 (Kangaroo Island) ; Chandler, 
ib., Vol. XIII., p. 43, 1913 (Vic.). 
Meliphaga cratitia Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. I., p. 122, 1846. 
Lichenostomus cratitius Cabanis, Mus. Hein., Vol. I., p. 119, note, 1851. 
Lichenostomus occidentalis Cabanis, Mus. Hein., Vol. I., p. 119, note, (after Oct. i3id) 1851 . 
West Australia, i.e., Wongan HiHs. 
Ptilotis occidentalis Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 189, 187b , id., Tab. 
List Austr. Birds, p. 12, 1888 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 96, 1908. 
Ptilotis cratitia cratitia Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVTII., p. 408, Jan. 31st, 1912. 
Ptilotis cratitia hahnaturina Mathews, ib., p. 409 : Kangaroo Island. 
Ptilotis cratitia howei Mathews, ib. : Kow Plains, Victoria. 
Ptilotis cratitia stirlingi Mathews, ib. : Stirling Ranges, West Australia. 
Ptilotis cratitia occidentalis Mathews, ib. 
Ptilotis carpentariensis Campbell, Emu, Vol. XII., pt. i., p. 19, July 1st, 191- (ex u • 
Roy. Austr. Om. Union, No. 3, May 21st, 1912, unpublished) : Burketown, Gulf 
of Carpentaria. 
Ptilotis cratitia samueli Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. I., pt. 4, p. 99, > e P • 
1912 : Eyre’s Peninsula, South Australia. 
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