Order PASSERIFORMES. 
Family MELITHREPTIDIE 
No. 681. 
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PTILOTULA FLAVESCENS. 
YELLOW-TINTED HONEY-EATER. 
(Plate 539.) 
Ptilotis FLAVESCENS Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1839, p. 144, March 1840 : North¬ 
west Coast Australia. 
Ptilotis flavescens Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1839, p. 144, 1840; id., Birds Austr., 
pt. xv. (Vol. IV., pi. 41), Sept. 1st, 1845 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 517, 
1865; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 189, 1878; Gadow, Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. TX., p. 245, 1884 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 2nd 
Ser., Vol. I., p. 1092, 1887 ; id.. Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 13, 1888; Hall, Key 
Birds Austr., p. 43, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 40S, 
1901 ; Hall, Emu, Vol. I., p. 100, 1902 (N.W.A.); North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., 
No. 1. Vol. II., p. 128, 1907; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 97, 1908; id., 
Emu, Vol. IX., p. 15, 1909 (N.W.A.) ; Hill, ib., Vol. X., p. 286, 1911 (N.W.A.); 
id., ib., Vol. XII., p. 260, 1913 (Central Australia); Macgillivray, ib., Vol. XIII., 
p. 178, 1914 (Q.); Barnard, ib., Vol. XIV., p. 49, 1914 (N.T.). 
Ptilotis flavescens flavescens Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 411, Jan. 31st, 1912. 
Ptilotis flavescens wynd/iami Mathews, ib. : Wynclhain, North-west Australia. 
Ptilotis flavescens subgermana Mathews, ib. : Cairns, North Queensland. 
Ptilotis flavescens melvillensis Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. I., pt. 2, p. 50, Apl. 2nd, 
1912 : Melville Island. 
Ptilotula flavescens flavescens Mathews, last Birds Austr., p. 280, 1913 ; id.. South Austr. 
Ornith., Vol. III., p. 225, 1918. 
Ptilotula flavescens wyndkami Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 280, 1913. 
Ptilotula flavescens melvillensis Mathews, ib. 
Ptilotula flavescens subgermana Mathews, ib. ; id., South Austr. Orn., Vol. II., p. 60, 1915. 
Ptilotula flavescens zanda Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. II., pt. 4, p. 77, Dec. 29th, 
1913 : Normanton, Gulf of Carpentaria. 
Distribution. Northern Tropical Australia, from Derby in the north-west to Cairns, 
Queensland, but not in Capo York Peninsula. 
Adult male. Feathers of the lores, sides of the face and fore-head pale yellow, sliadod with 
grey ; back of the head, neck, mantle, lower back, rump and wing-coverts dull 
smoky-grey ; upper tail-coverts grey washed with buff ; tail olive-brown, margined 
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