GREY-HEADED HONEY-EATER. 
whitish; primaries and secondaries ash-brown, with the outer web at the base 
olive-yellow and narrowly margined towards the tip with whitish ; lores, feathers 
over the eye and ear-coverts dark grey ; behind the ear-coverts a patch of golden- 
yellow plumes ; whole of the under-surface of the body primrose-yellow, brightest 
on the throat, the feathers of the throat and breast with indistinct streaks of 
brownish-grey. Eyes brown, feet and tarsus pale brown, bill black, with basal 
half of tomium yellow. Total length 148 mm. ; culmen 12, wing 78, tail 64, tarsus 
21. Figured. Collected at Mungi, eight miles S.E. of Mount Alexander, West 
Kimberlej 7 ”, North-west Australia, on the 18th of June, 1911, and is the type of 
P. k. mungi. 
Adult female. General colour of the upper-surface pale ochreous-brown tinged with grey 
on the fore-part of the head ; outer webs of flight-quills fringed with yellow, the 
inner ones dark brown margined with buff ; tail pale brown tinged with yellow ; 
lores and eye-ring blackish ; ear-coverts bronze-brown tipped with yellow ; chin, 
throat, breast, abdomen, sides of body, and under tail-coverts pale yellow ; axillaries 
and under wing-coverts yellowish-buff ; under-surface of flight-quills hair-brown 
with buff margins ; lower aspect of tail bronze-yellow. Eyes hazel, bill dark 
purplish-horn, legs and feet flesh. Collected at Point Cloates, Mid-west Australia, 
on the 2nd of July, 1900, and is cloatesensis. 
Young female . Top of head, lores, and nape dull grey ; ear-coverts and space in front of 
the eye rust-brown ; hind-neck, sides of neck, back, rump, upper tail-coverts, 
axillaries, and upper wing-coverts cinnamon-buff ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, 
and flight-quills dark brown fringed with yellow on the outer webs, the latter 
margined with buff on the inner webs ; tail pale brown tinged with yellow ; chin, 
throat, sides of face, breast, abdomen, sides of body, thighs, and under tail-coverts 
pale yellow 7 , more or less tinged with ochreous on the throat and breast; axillaries 
and under wing-coverts pale buff ; under-surface of flight-quills hair-brown 
margined w r ith pale buff ; lower aspect of tail pale yellow. Eyes brow T n, legs grey. 
Collected on Taylor’s Creek, Nullagine, Mid-west Australia, on the 15th of April, 1901. 
Eggs. Two eggs usually form the clutch. A pair taken at Marble Bar, Western Australia, 
on the 28th of September, 1914, is of a pale flesh-tint in the ground-colour, marked, 
chiefly about the larger ends, w r itk spots of dull reddish-brown. In shape rather 
swollen ovals. Surface of shell smooth and slightly glossy. 18-19 by 14 mm. 
Nest. A small cup-shaped structure suspended near the extremity of a small branch, 
and varying at heights from 2 to 15 feet from the ground. 
Breeding-months. July to November ; May and June, or after rain. 
Mr. Tom Carter writes : 46 In your 1912 4 Reference List ’ Heartland’s 
Honey-eater (Grey-headed) and its two subspecies are not given as occurring 
on or near the coast in the northern areas of West Australia. It is the typical 
Honey-eater, and common, all along the rugged ranges from Point Cloates to 
the North-west Cape. These ranges are, in places, less than half a mile 
from the sea. This species is also common on the table-land broken country 
that lies behind these ranges across to the Exmouth Gulf. The birds were 
never seen out of this region of the North-west Cape peninsula, and seem 
to like rough country. They feed mostly in the stunted desert white gum trees, 
but also obtain food from the blossoms of scattered scrub along the ranges. 
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