Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 678. 
Family MELITHREPTIDM. 
SACRAMELA KEARTLANDI. 
GREY-HEADED HONEY-EATER. 
(Plate 538.) 
Ptilotis keartlandi North, Ibis, 1895, p. 340, July : McMinn’s Range, Central Australia. 
Ptilotis lceartlandi North, Ibis, 1895, p. 340 ; id.. Rep. Horn. Sci. Exped. Cent. Aust., 
Vol. II., Zool., p. 93, pi. vi., 1896; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 42, 1899 ; Campbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 402, 1901 ; Hall, IJmu, Vol. I., p. 98, 
1902 (N.W.A.); (?) Le Souef, ib., Vol. II., p. 147, 1903 (N.T.); Carter, ib ., Vol. 
III., p. 92, 1903 (M.W.A.); North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. II., p. 149, 
1907 ; Mathews, Hand!. Birds Austral., p. 96, 1908 ; Whitlock, Emu, Vol. VIII., 
p. 184, 1909 (W.A.); Hill, ib., Vol. XII., p. 244, 1913 (Central Australia) ; 
Campbell and Kershaw, ib., p. 277; Macgillivray, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 178, 1914 (Q.); 
Campbell, ib., Vol. XVIII., p. 5, 1918. 
Ptilotis heartlandi keartlandi Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 409, Jan. 31st, 1912. 
Ptilotis keartlandi mungi Mathews, ib. : Mungi, North-west Australia. 
Ptilotis keartlandi alexandrensis Mathews, ib. : Alexandra, Northern Territory. 
Lichenostomus keartlandi keartlandi Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 279, 1913. 
Lichenostomus keartlandi mungi Mathews, ib. 
Lichenostomus keartlandi alexandrensis Mathews, ib. 
Lichenostomus keartlandi S. A. White, Trans. Roy. Soc. Sth. Austr., Vol. XXXVIII., 
p. 436, 1914; id., Emu, Vol. XIV., p. 191, 1915. 
Sacramela keartlandi cloatesensis Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. V., pts. 2-3, p. 37, 
Feb. 21st, 1923 : Point Cloates. 
Sacramela keartlandi mungi Mathews, ib. 
Meliphaga keartlandi Whitlock, Emu, Vol. XXIII., p. 277, 1924. 
Distribution. Central Australia, reaching to the coast in Mid- and North-west Australia 
and northwards to the Gulf of Carpentaria. 
Adxdt male. Feathers of the top of the head light grey, suffused with yellow; upper 
back, mantle, wing-coverts and scapulars greyish-yellow ; rump yellowish-bull; 
upper tail-coverts darker; middle tail-feathers brownish-olive, narrowly margined 
on both webs with olive-yellow ; outer tail-feathers ash-brown, margined on the 
outer web with golden-yellow, and narrowly margined on the inner web with 
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