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MELITHREPTIDJC. 
Paraptilotis chrysops chrysops (Lath.). (9-237.) 
Sylvia chrysops Latham, Index Orn., Suppl. p. liv, (after May) 
1801 : Sydney, New South Wales. (Fig. Gould, iv. pi. 45.) 
Mdithreptus gilvicapillus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. nouv. ed. vol. xiv. 
p. 329, Sept. 13th, 1817 : Sydney. 
Ptilotis trimrgata Gray, Handl. Gen. Sp. Birds Brit. Mas. vol. i. p. 156, 1869, 
(before Feb. 2nd) 1870, in synonymy of chrysops. 
Distr. —South Queensland and New South Wales. 
Paraptilotis chrysops barroni (Math.). 
Ptiloti s chrysops barroni Mathews, Nov. Zool. vol. xviii. p. 406, 
Jan. 31st, 1912 : Cairns, Queensland. 
Ptilotis subekrysops Campbell, Emu, vol. xii. p. 19, July 1912 (ex Bull. Austr. 
Ornith. Union, no. 3, May 21st, 1912, unpublished) : Bellenden Ker Range, 
Queensland. 
Distr. —North Queensland. 
Paraptilotis chrysops beaconsfieldi (Math.). 
Ptilotis chrysops beaconsfieldi Mathews, Nov. Zool. vol. xviii. p. 407, 
Jan. 31st, 1912 : Beaconsfield, Victoria. (Math. xi. pi. 529.) 
Ptilotis chrysops samueli Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. vol. i . p. 99, Sept. 18tli, 
1912 : north of Adelaide. 
Distr. — Victoria and South Australia. 
Genus MELIPHAGA Lewin. 
Meliphaga Lewin, Birds New Holland, pi. 5, etc. 1808. Type (by 
subsequent designation, Gray, 1840, p. 15): M. chrysotis Lewin= 
Ptilotis lewinii Swainson. Not Melophagus Latreille, in Sonnini’s 
Buffon Ins. vol. iii. p. 466, 1802. 
Ptilotis Swainson* Classif. Birds, vol. ii. p. 326, July 1st, 1837. Typo (by 
subsequent designation, Salvador!, Orn. Pap. e Mol. vol. ii p. 326, 1881): 
Ptilotis leurinii Swainson. Not Ptilutus Fischer, Zoognosia, ed. 3, vol. i. 
p. 15, 1813. 
Dorothina Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. vol. ii. p. Ill, Sept. 24th, 1914. Type 
(by original designation) : Meliphaga lewinii Swainson. 
Territnrnis Mathews, Birds Austr. vol. xi. pt. ix. p. 543, Dec. 22nd, 1924. 
Type (by original designation) : Ptilotis albilineata White. 
Meliphaga lewinii (Swains.). Yellow-eared Honey-eater. 
Distr . — Eastern Australia. 
Meliphaga lewinii lewinii (Swains.). (9 299.) 
Ptilotis lewinii Swainson, Classif. Birds, vol. ii. p. 326, July 1st, 
1837: Sydney, New South Wales; new name for Meliphaga 
chrysotis Lewin ; not Certhia chrysotis Latham, Index Ornith., 
Suppl. p. xxxviii, (after May) i80L (Fig. Gould, iv. pi. 32 ; 
Math. xi. pi. 530.) 
Ptilotis lewinii nea Mathews, Nov. Zool. vol. xviii. p. 404, Jan. 31st, 1912 : 
Dandenon, Victoria. 
