WATTLE-CHEEKED HONEY-EATER. 
“ Differs from P. c. cratitia in its larger size and generally brighter coloration. 
Kangaroo Island.” 
Kangaroo Island. 
Ptilotis cratitia howei Mathews. 
“Differs from P. c. cratitia in its generally paler coloration. Kow Plains, 
Victoria.” 
Victoria. 
Ptilotis cratitia stirlingi Mathews. 
“ Differs from P. c. occidentalis in its much lighter coloration above, especially 
on the head, and its more uniform greyish under coloration. Stirling Ranges, 
West Australia. 
Ptilotis cratitia occidentalis (Cabanis). 
West Australia (Albany). 
Through the transference of the Gouldian name I proposed 
Ptilotis cratitia samueli. 
“ Differs from P. c. cratitia (from Kangaroo Island) in its smaller size and 
generally duller coloration. Eyre’s Peninsula, South Australia.’ 
and I had to rename this 
Ptilotis cratitia zarda, 
as the above name was twice used. 
Just after my “ List ” was published Campbell wrote : Dr. E. P. 
Ramsay in his Tabular List of Australian Birds (1888) indicates P. cratitia 
for Port Darwin and Gulf of Carpentaria districts. Mr. A. J. North, in a 
more recent work {Special Catalogue No. 1 of the Australian Museum), 
does not mention either of those districts for P. cratitia. However, in the 
collection above mentioned is a Ptilotis from Burketown resembling cratitia, 
but its general coloration is more yellow, especially the margins of the 
primaries and tail-feathers, about the gape, etc., while the dark mark 
across the face is brownish instead of dull black. There is no collector s note 
on the label to indicate what was the colour of the naked flesh at the gape 
in the living bird, which in P. cratitia is lilac. As the bird was collecte 
near the shores of the Gulf of Carpentaria, the name Ptilotis carpentariensis 
is suggested for it.” 
I included this in my 1913 “ List ” as a subspecies of P. cratitia, but so 
it is curious that Captain White never met with it in the interior, and t le 
collector’s name would be useful. Was it one of the Grant collect’ 
Some of his birds are not reliable, viz., Pachycephdla dubia , c./. my remar 
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