Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 685. 
Family MELITHREPTIDM. 
XANTHOTIS FLAVIVENTER. 
STREAK-NAPE D HONEY-EATER. 
(Plate 542.) 
[Myzantha FLAVIVENTER Lesson, Manuel d’Omitli., Vol. II., p. 67, June 1828: New 
Guinea. Extrarlimital. ] 
Ptiloiia filigera Gould, Suppl. Birds Austr., pt, 1 (pi. 42), March 15th, 1851: Cape York, 
Queensland. 
Ptilotis filigera Gould, Suppl. Birds Austr., pt. 1 (pi. 42), March 15th, 1851; id., Proc. 
Zool. Soc. (Lend.), 1850, p. 278, after Jan., 1852; id., Handb. Birds Austr,, Vol. L, 
p. 522, 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. 237, 1884; Ramsay, Tab, List Austr. Birds, p. 13, 1888; Hall, Key Birds 
Austr., p. 42, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Bii'ds, Vol. I., p. 394, 1901; 
North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. IV., pt. 5, p. 433, 1914. 
XarUhoiis filigera Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral,, p. 97, 1908 ; H. L. White, Emu, Vol. X., 
p. 339, 1911 ; Barnard, ih., Vol. XI., p. 28, 1911 ; Campbell, ih., Vol. XHI, p. 69, 
1913; Macgillivray, ih., p. 180, 1914; id., ih., Vol. XVII., p. 206, 1918. 
Ptilotis fUiviventer filigera Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 413, 1912. 
Xanthotis flaviverUer filigera Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 283, 1913. 
XarUhotis fUiviventer watsoni Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. III., pt. 4, p. 71, 
July 21st, 1917: Watson River, North Queensland. 
Distribution. North Queensland, Cape York Peninsula only. Extra-limital. 
Adult. Fore-head, lores and crown dull greem'sh-olive ; nape and hind-neck greenish-olive 
with pear-shaped dull white markings ; hinder margin of crown dull black; mantle 
and upper back ash-brown, each feather margined with greenish-olive; feathers 
of the rump brownish-olive, very dense and of a silky texture; upper tail-coverts 
asli-brown, faintly bordered with olive ; tail ash-brown, margined on the outer 
webs with dull olive-green ; primaries and secondaries ash-brown, margined on the 
outer web with yellowish-olive and on the inner web with fawn-colour; a line of 
white feathers above and below the e 3 "e, continued on to the ear-coverts wliich are 
deep giey; throat and sides of the neck whitish-gi'ey; chest yellowish-olive; 
remainder of the under-surface tawny-rufous washed with olive and with 
spots of yellowish-white scattered over the chest and belly. Eyes and bill black, 
feet slate-blue. Total length 195 mm. ; culmen 22, wing 92, tail 74, tarsus 26. 
Figured. Collected at Utingu, Cape York, North Queensland, on the 22nd of 
September, 1912. 
The sexes are alike. 
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