Order PASSERIFORMES, 
No. 682. 
Family MELITHREPTIDM. 
PTILOTULA PENICILLATA. 
WHITE-PLUMED HONEY-EATER. 
(Plate 540.) 
Meltphaga penicillata Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. i., pi. (15), April 1st, 1837 : 
Interior of New South Wales. 
Meliphaga penicillata Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. i., pi. (15), April 1st, 1837; id., 
Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1836, p. 143, Dec. 1837 ; Ashby, Emu, Vol. XXI., p. 208, 
1922 (Review); Russell, ib. Vol. XXI., p. 142, 1921 (Vic.); McGilp, ib., Vol. 
XXII., p. 286, 1923 ; Whitlock, ib., Vol. XXIII., p. 277, 1924. 
Ptiloti8 penicillata Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xvni. (Vol. IV., pi. 43), March 1st, 1845; id., 
Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 519, 1865; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1875, 
p. 596, 1876 (Q.) ; id., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 189, 1878 ; Gadow, Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mas., Vol. IX., p. 244, 1884 ; Ramsa}', Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 13, 
1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 42, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, 
Vol. I., p. 403, 1901 ; D’Ombrain, Emu, Vol. V., p. 83, 1905 (Vic.) ; Cleland, ib., 
p. 190, 1906 (S.A.) ; id., ib., p. 207 (Kangaroo Island) ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. 
Cat., No. 1, Vol. II., p. 131, 1907 ; Batev, Emu, Vol. VII., p. 9, 1907 (Vic.); Hill, 
ib., p. 19 (Vic.) ; Austin, ib., p. 30 (N.S.W.) ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., 
p. 97, 1908; Dove, Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 70, 1908 (Vic.); Cleland, ib., Vol. IX., 
p. 225, 1910 (Food); Macgillivray, ib., Vol. X., pp. 17-22, 1910 (N.S.W.); 
Cleland, ib., Vol. XII., p. 17, 1912 (Food) ; Austin, ib., p. 41-42 (N.S.W.); S. A. 
White, ib., p. 127, 1912 (S.A.) ; Chandler, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 43, 1913 (Vic.); S. A. 
White, ib., p. 128, 1914 (S.A.) ; Cleland, ib., p. 131 (S.A.) ; Purnell, ib., Vol. XV., 
p. 44, 1915 (Vic.) ; Cleland, ib., Vol. XVIII., p. 282, 1919 (N.S.W.) ; Kersey, ib., 
Vol. XIX., p. 52, 1919. 
Ptilotia leilamlenais North, Records Austr. Mus., Vol. III., No. V.. p. 106, April 17th, 
1899 : Burke District, Queensland ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 43, 1899 ; Campbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 405, 1901 ; Hall, Emu, Vol. I., p. 99, 1902 
(N.W.A.); Milligan, ib., Vol. IV., p. 51, 1904 (W.A.); North, Austr. Mus. Spec. 
Cat., No. 1, Vol. II., p. 133, 1907 ; Matliows, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 97, 1908 ; 
Macgillivray, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 179, 1914 (Q.). 
Ptilotis carteri Campbell, Victorian Naturalist, Vol. XVI., No. 1, p. 3, May 1st, 1899: 
North-west Capo, Mid-west Australia ; Carter, ib., Vol. III., p. 92, 1903 (M.W.A.); 
id., ib., p. 248, pi. xvi., 1904; Milligan, ib., Vol. IV., p. 51, 1904; id., ib., pp. 152-3, 
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