Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 686. 
Family MELITHREPTIBM. 
PHYLIDONYRIS PYRRHOPTERA. 
CRESCENT HONEY-EATER. 
(Plate 543.) 
Certhia PYRRHOPTERA Latham, Index Ornith. Suppl., p. xxxvm., (after May 30th) 1801: 
New South Wales, based on Wathng di'awing. No. 112. 
Certhia pyrrhoptera Latham, Index Omith. Suppl., p. xxxvm., 1801. 
Yellow-winged Creeper Latham, Gen. Synops. Birds, Suppl. II., p. 168, 1801. 
Certhia australasiana Shaw, Gen. Zool., Vol. VIII., pt. 1, p. 226, 1811: New South Wales. 
Melithreptus mdanoleucvs Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., nouv. ed., Vol. XIV., p. 328, 
Sept. 13th, 1817 : New South Wales. 
Meliphaga australasiana Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., 
p. 313, 1827 ; Gould, Birds Austr., pt. 1 (Vol. IV., pi. 27), Dec. 1st, 1840. 
Meliphaga inornata Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., App., p. 5, April 1838: Tasmania. 
Meliomis australasiana Ramsay, Proc. liinn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 188, 1878; 
Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IX., p. 262, 1884 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. 
Birds, p. 12, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 43, 1899; Campbell, Nests aud 
Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 411, 1901 ; A. G. Campbell, Emu, Vol, II., p. 207, 
1903 (King I.) ; Fletcher, ib., Vol. IV., p. 16, 1904 (Tas.); A. G. Campbell, 
ib., p. 117, 1905 (Tas.) ; McClymont, ib., p. 176 (Tas.); North, Austr. Mus. 
Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. II., p. 68. 1906 ; HHl, Emu, Vol. VII., p. 19, 1907 (Vic.); 
Ingle, ih., Vol. X., p. 124, 1910 (Vic.); Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 58, 
1910; Fletcher. Emu, Vol. XL, p. 107, 1911 (Tas.); Dove, ib.,p. 126, 1911; id., 
Vol. XIX., p. 245, 1920 (Tas.). 
^ Lichmera australasiana Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 493, 1865; Maclaine, 
Emu, Vol. III., p. 192, 1904 (Tas.); Dove, ib., Vol. VI., p. 20, 1906 (Tas.); 
S. A. White, ib., Vol. XIV., p. 143, 1915 (MaUee); PurneU, ih., Vol. XV., p. 44, 
1915 (Vic.); Dove, ib., p. 193, 1916 (Tas.). 
Meliomis {Lichmera) australasiana subsp. halnmturina A. G. Campbell, Emu, Vol. V., 
pt. III., p. 140, Jan. 1st, 1906 : Kangaroo Island. 
Lichmera halmaturina A. G. Campbell, ib., p. 143. 
Meliomis halmaturina Mellor, Emu, Vol. XII., p. 39, 1912 ; S. A. Wliite, ih., p. 263, 1913. 
Meliomis pyrrhoptera Sharpe, Hist. Coll. Nat. Brit. Brit. Mus., Vol. II., p. 129, 1906; 
Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 97, 1908; Cleland, Emu, Vol. XL, p. 91, 1911 
(Food); id., ib., Vol. XIL, p. 17, 1912 (Food). 
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