Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 679. 
Family ME LI THREPTIDM. 
SACRAMELA ORNATA. 
YELLOW-PLUMED HONEY-EATER. 
(Plate 538.) 
Ptilotis ornatus Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv. (pi. 72), April 1st, 1838 : Swan River, 
West Australia. 
Ptilotis orrudus Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv. (pi. 72), 1838 ; id., Birds Austr., pt. n. 
(Yol. IV., pi. 39), March 1st, 1841 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 515, 1865; 
Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 189, 1878 ; Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus., Vol. IX., p. 244, 1884; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 12, 1888; Hall, Key 
Birds Austr., p. 43. 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. T., p. 406, 
1901 ; Milligan, Emu, Vol. III., pp. 11,18, 22, 1903 (W.A.) ; Hill, ib., p. 106, 1903 
(W.A.) ; Milligan, ib., Vol. IV., pp. 6-10, 1904 (W.A.); North, Austr. Mus. Spec. 
Cat., No. 1, Vol. II., p. 135, 1907 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 96, 1908; 
Howe, Emu, Vol. VIII., pp. 132-7, 1909 (Vic.) ; Gibson, ib., Vol. IX., p. 75, 1909 
(W.A.); Crossman, ib., p. 90 (W.A.); Hall, ib., p. 129, 1910 (S.A.); Howe, ib., 
p. 233 (Vic.); Whitlock, ib., Vol. X., p. 312, 1911 (W.A.); S. A. White, ib., Vol. 
XII., p. 3, 1912 (S.A.) ; Wilson, ib., p. 38 (Vic.); S. A. White, ib., p. 180, 1913 
(S.A) ; id., ib., Vol. XIII., p. 32, 1913 (S.A.); Chandler, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 43, 
1913 (Vic.); S. A. White, ib., p. 128, 1914 (S.A.); Cleland, ib., p. 131 (Food); 
Elliott, ib., Vol. XV., p. 179, 1916 (W.A.); Alexander, ib., Vol. XX., p. 167, 
1921 (W.A.). 
Ptilotis novcehollandice Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 19, 1911. 
Not Muscicapa novcFfiollandiaz Latham, Index Omith., Vol. II, p. 478, 1790. 
Ptilotis ornata ornata Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 410, Jan. 31st, 1912. 
Ptilotis ornata munna Mathews, ib. : Stirling Ranges, West Australia. 
Ptilotis ornata tailemi Mathews ib. : Tailem Bend, South Australia. 
Ptilotis onuita wesleydalei Mathews, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, Vol. XXXI., p. 68, March 20th, 
1913 : Broome Hill, South-west Australia. 
Ptilotis ornata underbooli Mathews, ib. : Underbool, Victoria. 
Lichenostomus ornatus ornatus Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 279, 1913. 
Lichenostomus ornatus wesleydalei Mathews, ib. 
Lichenostomus ornatus munna Mathews, ib. 
Lichenostomus ornatus tailemi Mathews, ib. ; Belcher, Birds Geelong, p. 343, 1914. 
Sacramela ornata Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., p. Ill, 1914. 
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