PLUMED HONEY-EATER. 
had recently flown. In their habits they resemble P. sonora somewhat, though 
they are easily distinguished, even at a distance, from the commoner species.” 
When Campbell named this new species he wrote: “is closely allied to 
P. plumula, but has the back, wing-coverts, and tail-coverts greyish instead 
of greenish; has the patches of yellow on the sides of the neck larger, and the 
under-surface more pronouncedly mottled.” 
In my “ Reference List ” I accepted for this species Certhia chrysotis Latham, 
but in 1913 I rejected this name writing, “ Certhia chrysotis Latham. This 
name is based on Watling’s Plate 117. Gray identified this as P. fusca Gould. 
Sharpe connected Watling’s Plate 115 with this name, but the description 
does not agree. Sharpe’s conclusion regarding Plate 117 was that it might 
have been drawn from a specimen of Ptilotis fusca in worn plumage. I 
recognized in it the Eastern representative of Gould’s P. plumulus, but on 
account of the indefiniteness of the drawing, and the many attempts to fix 
the name, I would now discard it as indeterminable.” 
In view of this conclusion it seems necessary to reproduce Latham’s 
description which I here give. 
“ Yellow-eared Cr(eeper). Size of a Hedge Sparroiu; length six inches ; 
bill and legs black ; tongue bristly ; irides dirty pale red ; the plumage on the 
upper parts of the body pale dirty brown, beneath white ; below the ear an 
oval spot of a fine yellow colour, and above it a smaller one of black. Inhabits 
New South Wales.” 
Accepting the above name I arranged the species in 1912 thus : 
' Ptilotis chrysotis chrysotis (Latham). 
New South Wales. 
Ptilotis chrysotis plumula Gould. 
West Australia. 
Ptilotis chrysotis ethelce Mathews. 
“ Differs from P. c. chrysotis in its darker coloration above and below, especially 
on throat and breast, and its having a black line of feathers over the yellow 
ear-patch. Port Augusta, South Australia.” 
South Australia. 
Ptilotis chrysotis planasi Campbell. 
North-west Australia. 
Ptilotis chrysotis andersoni Mathews. 
“ Differs from P. c. planasi in its longer and stouter bill, and in being paler 
above and less yellow below. Mount Anderson, N.W.A.” 
Interior of North-west Australia. 
I then added 
Ptilotis chrysotis graingeri. 
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