THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Lichenostomus plumulus gracemeri Mathews, Austral A\ian Record, Vol. II., pt. 4, p. 77, 
Dec. 29th, 1913 : Gracemere, Queensland. 
Sacramela plumula Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. II., p. 112, 1914. 
Sacramela plumula plumvla Mathews, ib. 
Sacramela plumula planasi Mathews, ib. 
Sacramela plumula andersoni Mathews, ib. 
Sacramela plumula grabigeri Mathews, ib. 
Sacramela plumula gracemeri Mathews, ib. 
Sacramela plumula ethelce Mathews, ib. 
Meliphaga plumula McGilp, Emu, Vol XXII., p. 286, 1923 ; Whitlock, ib., Vol. XXIII., 
p. 277, 1924. 
Distribution. Interior of Australia, ranging on the north-east to Gracemere, Queens¬ 
land, and on the north-west to Napier Broome Bay, and along the south from 
east to west. 
Adult male. Fore-head and crown pale olive-yellow ; mantle, back, rump, scapulars and 
wing-coverts light ash-colour, slightly tinged with olive ; upper tail-coverts olive- 
yellow ; tail-feathers ash-brown, margined on the outer web with greenish- 
yellow and slightly margined on the inner web with whitish, all the feathers 
narrowly tipped with wliite; primaries and outermost secondaries ash-brown 
with the outer w T eb greenish-yellow, and the inner web widely margined with 
whitish; innermost secondaries like the mantle in colour; feathers in front 
of the eye dusky ; ear-coverts bordered behind by dusky-black; sides of the neck 
ornamented by a tuft of silky golden-yellow feathers ; throat whitish, very indis¬ 
tinctly streaked with ash-colour ; remainder of the under-parts yellowish-wliite, 
tinged especially on the chest with pale lomon-vellow ; under wing-coverts and 
axillaries light fawn-colour. Eyes brow r n, feet and tarsus leaden-brow r n, bill black. 
Total length 157 mm. ; culmen 13, wing 78, tail 64, tarsus 22. Figured. Collected 
on Mt. Anderson, West Kimberley, North-west Australia, on the 12th of July, 1911, 
and is the type of P. c. andersoni , 
Adult female. Feathers of the top of the head and ear-coverts yellowish-green; back 
of the neck, mantle, rump, upper tail-coverts, wing-coverts and scapulars greyisli- 
green ; tail-feathers ash-brown, margined on the outer webs with yellowish-olive; 
primaries and secondaries blackish-brown, with the outer w r ebs olive-yellow towards 
the base and whitish towards the tip ; innermost secondaries greyish-olive ; lores 
blackish ; ear-coverts bordered below by blackish ; a tuft of golden-yellow r plumes 
below the ear-coverts ; chin wliitish tinged with yellow ; chest, breast and sides 
of the body olive-yellow indistinctly streaked with dusky ; middle of the belly and 
under tail-coverts pale yellow*. Eyes white. Total length 150 mm. ; culmen 11, 
wing 79, tail 66, tarsus 21. Figured. Collected on Mt. Grainger, South Australia 
(betw'een Petersburg and Broken Hill), on the 11th of September, 1911, and is the 
type of P. c. graingeri. 
The sexes are alike. 
Immature. Top of head dull olive-yellow*; lores and spot in front of the eye blackish ; 
sides of face similar ; ear-coverts lemon-j^ellow ; hind-neck, back, rump, upper 
tail-coverts, scapulars, and upper wing-coverts rufous-brown; primary-coverts 
and flight-quills dark browrn fringed with yellowish-green on the outer w r ebs, 
becoming paler and inclining to white at the tips of the latter — the inner w r ebs of 
the latter whitish ; tail yellowish-green, pale brown on the imier webs ; chin and 
538 
