Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 687. 
Family MELITHREPTIDM. 
JMELIORNIS NOViEHOLLANDLE. 
WHITE-BEARDED HOTsEY-E ATER. 
(Plate 544.) 
Cebthia nov.®hollandi.s: Latham, Index Ornith., Vol. I., p. 296, Dec. 1790: New 
South Wales. 
New Holland Creeper, Wixite, Jornn. Voy, New South Wales, pi. opp. p. 186, 1790. 
Certhia novcehoUandioe Latham, Index Ornith., Vol. I., p. 296, 1790. 
Sylvia canescens Latham, ib., Vol. II., p. 553, Dec. 1790 ; Tasmania. 
MelipJiaga halgonera Stephens in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., Vol. XIV., pt. 1, p. 261 (end), 1826: 
New South Wales. 
Meliphaga novcehollandiae Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lend.), Vol. XV., 
p. 311, 1827 ; Gould, Birds Austr., pt. x. (Vol. IV., pi. 23), March 1st, 1843. 
Mdiphaga harbata Swainson, Classif. Birds, Vol. IL, p. 326, July 1st, 1837: based on 
Oiseaux Dores, pi. 57 : New South Wales. 
Meliomia novoeholkmdice Gray, List Genera Birds, Ist ed., p. 15, 1840 ; Gould, Handb. 
Birds Austr., Vol. L, p. 486, 1865; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., 
p. 188, 1878 ; Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IX., p. 253, 1884; Ramsay, 
Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 12, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 43, 1899 ; Campbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 412, 1901; McClymont, Emu, Vol. IL, 
p. 24, 1902 (Tas.) ; A. G. Campbell, ih., p. 208, 1903 (Kjng I.); id., ib., Vol. V., 
p. 144, 1906 ; McClymont, ib., p. 161 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, 
Vol. IL, p. 59, 1906 ; Batey, Emu, Vol. VII., p. 9, 1907 (Vic.); Hill, ib., p. 19 (Vic.); 
Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 98, 1908 ; S. A. Wliite, Emu, Vol. VIIL, 
p. 196, 1909 ; Hall, ib., Vol. IX., p. 129, 1910 (S.A.) ; Cleland, ib., p. 225 (Food); 
Ingle, ib., Vol. X., p. 124, 1911 (Vic.); Cleland, ib., Vol. XL. p. 92, 1911 (Food); 
Fletcher, ib., p. 107 (Tas.) ; Dove, ib., p. 126 (Tas.) ; Ashby, ib., p. 254, 1912 (S.A); 
S. A. Wlute, ib., Vol. XII., p. 1, 1912 (S.A.); Cleland, ib., p. 17 (Food); MeUor, 
ib., p. 40 (Kangaroo I.) ; Dove, ib., p. 49 (Tas.) ; Mellor and Wliite, ib., p. 163, 
1913 (Flinders I.); S. A. Wliite, ib., p. 268 (S.A.); Chandler, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 44 
(Vic.); Agnew, ib., p. 96 (Q.) ; S. A. White, ib., Vol. XIV., p. 143, 1915 (MaUa- 
coota) ; Purnell, ib., Vol. XV., p. 44 (Vic.) : Dove, ib., p. 238, 1916 (Tas.); id., 
ib., Vol. XVII., p. 225-6, 1918 (Tas.) ; Le Souef and Macpherson, ib., Vol. XX., 
p. 91, 1920 (N.S.W.); Agnew, ib., Vol. XXL, p. 136, 1921 (Q.). 
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