Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 684. 
Family MELITHREPTIDM . 
STOMIOPERA UNICOLOR. 
WHITE-GAPED HONEY-EATER. 
(Plate 541.) 
Ptilotis unicolor Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1842, p. 136, 1843 : Port Essington, 
Northern Territory. 
Ptilotis unicolor Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1842, p. 136, 1843 ; id., Birds Austr., 
pt. xvi. (Vol. IV., pi. 46), March 1st, 1846 ; Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IX., 
p. 249, 1884 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 43, 1899; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. 
Birds, Vol. I., p. 410, 1901 ; Hall, Emu, Vol. I., p. 100, 1902 (N.W.A.) ; Le Souef, 
ib., Vol. II., p. 92, 1902 (N.T.) ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. II., p. 151, 
1907 ; Mathews, Hand! Birds Austral., p. 97, 1908 ; id., Emu, Vol. IX., p. 63, 
1909 (N.W.A.) ; Hill, ib., Vol. X., p. 287, 1911 (N.W.A.) ; id., ib., Vol. XII., p. 260, 
1913 (N.T.) ; Macgillivray, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 179, 1914 (Q.) ; Barnard, ib., Vol. XIV., 
p. 49, 1914 (N.T.) ; H. L. White, ib., Vol. XVI., p. 228, 1917 (N.T.) ; Campbell, 
ib., Vol. XVIII., p. 186, 1917 (N.T.). 
Meliphaga unicolor Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. I., p. 122, 1846. 
Stomiopera unicolor Reichenbach, Handb. Spec. Ornith., Abth. II., Vol. I. (Handb. 
Meropinse), p. 109, 1852; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 523, 1865; Ramsay, 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 189, 1878 ; id., ib., Ser. 2, Vol. I., p. 1092, 1887 ; 
id., ib., Ser. 2, Vol. II., p. 169, 1887 ; id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 13, 1888. 
Stomiopera incompta Reichenbach, Handb. Spec. Ornith., Abth. II., Vol. I. (Handb. 
Meropinge), p. 109, 1852, MS. as synonym of S. unicolor Gould. 
Ptilotis unicolor unicolor Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 413, Jan. 31st, 1912. 
Ptilotis unicolor yarra Mathews, ib. : Inkerman, Queensland. 
Ptilotis unicolor darbislci Mathews, ib. : Fitzro 3 7 ' River, North-west Australia. 
Ptilotis unicolor brenda Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. I., pt. 2, p. 50, Apl. 2nd. 1J12 . 
Melville Island, Northern Territory. 
Stomiopera unicolor unicolor Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 282, 1913. 
Stomiopera unicolor brenda Mathews, ib. 
Stomiopera unicolor darbislci Mathews, ib. ; id., South Austr. Orn., Vol. III., p. 225, 19R. 
Stomiopera unicolor yarra Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 282, 1913. 
Distribution. Northern Tropical Australia from Fitzroy River in the north west to 
Inkerman in Queensland ; Melville Island. 
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