YELLOW-TINTED HONEY-EATER. 
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small young birds was found at Byromine on the 9th April; one on the 
Gregory River road on the 17th July, containing one egg ; and a fourth building 
near Burketown on the 23rd July. Male taken on 21st February—irides dark 
brown, bill blackish-brown, legs olive-brown. Stomach contents, bronze- 
green ants and small beetles.” 
Barnard has recorded: “A Ptilotis closely resembling P. flavescens was 
very common on the McArthur, and a number of nests was found. In no 
instance did the nests contain more than a single egg or young bird.” 
Keartland met with this species on the Fitzroy River and observed: 
“ During the warm days of December and January these birds came to the 
water trough in such numbers to drink and bathe as to completely line the 
trough. They seem to be exactly similar in habits to the P. penicillata (White- 
plumed Honey-eater), spending then' time bathing, chasing each other, and 
seeking insects or pollen from the blossom amongst the eucalypt foliage. The 
sexes are alike in plumage, and can only be distinguished by dissection. 
They were just building their nests when we left the locality in March.” 
This Northern species I separated in 1912 into three subspecies: 
Ptilotis flavescens flavescens Gould. 
North-west Australia (Derby). 
Ptilotis flavescens wyndhami Mathews. 
“ Differs from P. /. -flavescens in its paler coloration, the yellow on the head 
only indicated, more uniform upper-surface, and obscurely striped under¬ 
surface. Wyndham, North-west Australia.” 
North-west Australia, Northern Territory. 
Ptilotis flavescens subgermana Mathews. 
“ A dullish brown-coloured bird above, like P. /. flavescens, but with no 
green whatever, and instead of yellow is uniformly grey with stripings very 
obscurely indicated; brown ear-stripe followed by tinge of yellow only, and 
preceded by greenish. Cairns, Queensland.” 
North Queensland. 
I then added 
Ptilotis flavescens melvillensis. 
“ Differs from P. f. wyndhami in its heavier bill and darker upper-suiface. 
It is also darker and larger than P. /. flavescens. Melville Island, Northern 
Territory.” 
and with transference to the genus Ptilotula admitted these in my 1913 List. 
I have since introduced 
Ptilotula flavescens zanda. 
“ Differs from P. /. melvillensis Mathews in bemg less striped on the chest, 
and lighter in colour and build. Normanton, Gulf of Carpentaria. 
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