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MELITHREPTIDJE. 
Melithreptus validirostris (Gould). Strong-billed Honey-eater. 
Distr. — Tasmania and King Island. 
Melithreptus validirostris validirostris (Gould). (9 206.) 
Hcematops validirostris Gould, Svnops. Birds Austr. pt. i. pi. 17, 
Jan. 1st, 1837 : Tasmania. (Fig. Gould, iv. pi. 70.) 
Sturnus virescens Wagler, Syst. Av., Sturnus , sp. 5, (before Oct.) 1827 : Tas¬ 
mania. Not Mdithreptes virescens Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. vol. xiv. 
p. 329, Sept. 13th, 1817. 
Eidopsnrus bicinctus Swainson, Classif. Birds, vol. ii. p. 328, July 1st, 1837 : 
Tasmania. 
Distr . — Tasmania. 
Melithreptus validirostris kingi Math. 
Melithreptus validirostris kingi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. vol. ii. 
p. 131, Jan. 28th, 1915 : King Island, Bass Straits. (Fig. Math. xi. 
pi. 512.) 
Distr. — King Island, Bass Straits. 
Melithreptus atricapillus (Lath.). Brown-headed Honey-eater. 
Distr.— Queensland to Victoria, South and South-West Australia 
(not Tasmania), King Island. 
Melithreptus atricapillus atricapillus (Lath.). (9 207.) 
Certhia atricapilla Latham, Index Ornith., Suppl. p. xxxvii, (after 
May) 1801 : Sydney, New South Wales. (Fig. Austr. Av. Rec. 
vol. iii. pi. 2, and Emu, iii. pi. 17.) 
Melithreptus brevirostris Vigors & Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. vol. xv. 
p. 315, Feb. 17th, 1827 : Sydney. 
Melithreptus breviceps Mathews, Birds Austr. vol. xi. p. 272, 1924, as synonym 
of Certhia atricapilla ex Do Vis, Proc. Itoy. Soc. Queensl. vol. i. p. 159, (after 
Sept.) 1884: nude name. 
Distr. —New South Wales. 
Melithreptus atricapillus leucogenys Mill. 
Melithreptus leucogenys Milligan, Emu, vol. ii. p. 161, Jan. 31st, 
1903 : Stirling Ranges, South-West Australia. 
Melithreptus atricapillus subleucogenys Mathews, Nov. Zool. vol. xviii. p. 394, 
Jan. 31st, 1912 : Lake Dundas, South-West Australia. 
Distr .— South-West Australia . 
Melithreptus atricapillus magnirostris North. 
Melithreptus mangirostris North, Rec. Austr. Mus. vol. vi. p. 20, 
June 15th, 1905 : Kangaroo Island (South Australia). 
Distr. — Kangaroo Island. 
