Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 683. 
Family MELITHREPTIDM. 
BROADBENTIA FLAVA. 
YELLOW HONEY-EATER. 
(Plate 541.) 
Ptilotis flava Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1842, p. 136, Feb. 1843 : North Coast 
Australia =Cape York. 
Ptilotis flava Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1842, p. 136, 1843 ; id., Birds Austr., pt. xxi. 
(Vol. IV., pi. 42), Dec. 1st, 1845 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 518, 1865; 
Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1875, p. 596, 1876; id., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 
Vol. II., p. 189, 1878 ; Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IX., p. 246,1884 ; Ramsay, 
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 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., 
No. I, Vol. II., p. 127, 1907 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 97, 1908; Broad- 
bent, Emu, Vol. X., p. 238, 1910 ; Macgillivray, ib ., Vol. XIII., p. 179, 1914; 
H. L. White, ib., Vol. XVI., p. 228, 1917 ; Campbell and Barnard, ib., Vol. XVII., 
p. 34, 1917 ; Macgillivray, ib., p. 206, 1918. 
Ptilotis flava flava Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 411, Jan. 31st, 1912. 
Ptilotis flava addenda Mathews, ib., p. 412 : Inkerman, Queensland. 
Broadbentia flava flava Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 282, 1913. 
Broadbentia flava addenda Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. North and Mid-Queensland. 
Adult male. Whole of the upper-surface of the body yellowish-olive, brightest on the 
rump and upper tail-coverts; tail-feathers dark olive-green, shafts dark brown; 
primaries and outermost secondaries ash-brown, with the outer w r ebs yellowish- 
olive and broadly margined on the inner w r eb with lemon-yellow ; innermost second¬ 
aries yellowish-olive, like the back, with dark brown shaft-streaks ; lores and 
ear-coverts olive-green, feathers behind the eye golden-yellow ; entire under-surface 
of the body golden-yellow ; under wing-coverts and axillaries bright golden-yellow. 
Eyes brown, bill black, legs and tarsus greenish-grey. Total length 160 mm. ; culmen 
15, wing 88, tail 72, tarsus 21. Figured. Collected near Cairns, North Queensland, 
in July, 1911, and is the type of B. f. assimilis. 
Adult jemale. Similar to the adult male. 
Eggs. Two eggs usually form the clutch. A clutch of tw'o eggs taken at Coen, Cape York 
Peninsula, North Queensland, on the 19th of November, 1921, is of a white colour, 
possessing a very pale pinkish tinge. Well spotted and blotched with pale to dark 
reddish-brown and purplish-grey, the markings becoming very crowded at the 
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