Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 680. 
Family MELITE REPTIDM. 
SACRAMELA PLUMTJLA. 
PLUMED HONEY-EATER. 
(Plate 539.) 
Ptilotis plumules Gould, Birds Australia, pt. n., March 1st, 1841 : York district. 
West Australia. 
Ptilotis plumulus Gould, Birds Austr., pt. ir. (Vol. IV., pi. 40), March 1st, 1841 ; id., Proc. 
Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1840, p. 150, July 1841 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., 
p. 516, 1865; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 189, 187S; Gadow, 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IX., p. 245, 1884; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, 
p. 13, 1888; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 43, 1899; Campbell, Nests and Eggs 
Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 407, 1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. II., 
p. 137, 1907; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 97, 1908; id., Emu, Vol. IX., 
pp. 14-63, 1909 (N.W.A.) ; Whitlock, ib., p. 211, 1910 (W.A.) ; Cleland, ib., p. 225 
(Food); S. A. White, ib., Vol. XII., p. 128, 1912 (S.A.) ; id., ib., Vol. XIII., p. 32, 
1913 (S.A.). 
Ptilotis planasi Campbell, Emu, Vol. X., pt. in., p. 168, Dec. 1st, 1910 : Napier Broome 
Bay, North-west Australia ; Hill, ib., p. 287, 1911. 
Ptilotis chrysotis chrysotis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 410, Jan. 31st, 1912. 
Not Certhia chrysotis Latham, Index Omith. Suppl., p. xxxviii., 1801. 
Ptilotis chrysotis plumula Mathews, ib. 
Ptilotis chrysotis ethelce Mathews, ib. : Port Augusta, South Australia. 
Ptilotis chrysotis planasi Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 411, Jan. 31st, 1912. 
Ptilotis chrysotis andersoni Mathews, ib. : Mount Anderson, North-west Australia. 
Ptilotis chrysotis graingeri Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. I., pt. 4, p. 99, Sept. 
18th, 1912 : Mount Grainger, South Australia. 
Lichenostomus plumulus plumulus Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 279, 1913. 
Lichenostomus plumulus planasi Mathews, ib. p. 280 ; id ., South Austr. Orn., Vol. III., 
p. 225, 1918. 
Lichenostomus plumulus andersoni Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 279, 1913. 
Lichenostomus plumulus graingeri Mathews, ib. 
Lichenostomus plumulus ethelce Mathews, ib. ; S. A. White, Trans. Roy. Soc. South Austr., 
Vol. XXXVIII., p. 436, 1914 (Central Australia) ; id.. Emu, Vol. XIV., p. 191, 
1915; id., ib., Vol. XV., p. 16], 1916 ; Ashby, ib., Vol. XVI., p. 233, 1917 ; S. A. 
mite, ib., Vol. XVIII., p. 198, 1919. 
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