WHITE-BEARDED HONEY-EATER. 
Alelip/iaga longirostris Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Loud.), 1846, p. 83, Nov. : West Australia 
(Swan River) ; id.. Birds Austr., pt. xxv. (Vol. IV., pi. 24), Dec. 1st, 1846. 
Meliornis loitgirostris Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 488, 1865; Ramsay, Proc. 
Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. 11., p. 188, 1878; Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IX., 
p. 264, 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. 413, 1901 ; 
Milligan, Emu, Vol. II., p. 74, 1902 (W.A.); id., ib., Vol. III., pp. 11-18, 1903 
(W.A.); Hill, ib., p. 228, 1904 (W.A.); Nicholls, ib., Vol. V., p. 79, 1906 (W.A.); 
North, Aust. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. II., p. 63, 1906 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds 
Austral., p. 98, 1908 ; Gibson, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 76, 1909 ; Whitlock, ib., Vol. X., 
p. 312, 1911 ; Orton and Sandland, ib,, Vol. XIII., p. 80, 1913; S. A. White, ib., 
Vol. XX., p. 129, 1921 (W.A.); Alexander, ib., p. 167. 
Meliornis novcEhollandim %nhsp. halmaturina A. G. Campbell, Emu, Vol. V., pt. III., p. 140, 
Jan. 1st, 1906 : Kangaroo Irland. 
Not Meliornis (Lichnera) australaaiana aubsp. halmaturina A. G. Campbell, which is Liehmera halma- 
lurina A. G. Campbell. t6., p. 143, Kangaroo Island. * 
Meliornis diemenensis Mathews, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, Vol. XXV., p. 100, May 12th, 
1910 : Tasmania. 
Meliornis novcehoUanditB novcehollandice Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVTI., p. 504, Dec. 
1910 ; id., ib., Vol. XVIII., p. 414, 1912 ; id.. List Birds Austr., p. 284, 1913. 
Meliornis novcelioUandice assimilis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 416, Jan. 3l8t, 
1912; Olinda, Victoria ; id.. List Birds Austr., p. 284, 1913; Belcher, Birds Geelong, 
p. 347, 1914. 
Meliomis novcehollandice diemenensis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVII., p. 604, 1910 ; 
id., ib., Vol. XVIII., p. 415, Jan. Slst, 1912. 
Meliomis novvehollandim snbassimilis Mathews, ib. : Mt. Lofty Ranges, South Australia ; 
id.. List Birds Austr., p. 284, 1913. 
Meliornis novcehollandim longiroslris Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 415, 1912 ; 
id.. List Birds Austr., p. 284, 1913. 
Meliornis novveliollawlice canescens Mathews, Austral Avian Rec., Vol. I., pt. 4, p. 100, 
Sept. 18th, 1912 ; id.. List Birds Austr., p. 284, 1913. 
Meliornis subassimilis S. A. White, Emu, Vol. XII., p. 263, 1913. 
Meliornis novcehollandioe Tudmatnrinus Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., pts. 2-3, 
p. 69, Oct. 23rd, 1913. 
Meliornis novcehollandioe gueenslandicus Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. V., pts. 2-3, 
p. 38, Feb. 21st, 1923: Queensland. 
Meliornis novcehollandim cam'^elli Mathews, ib.: Kangaroo Island. 
Meliornis novmhollandim intermedins Mathews, ib. : Stirling Ranges, South-west Austraha. 
Distribution. Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South and South-west 
Australia. 
Adult male. A tuft of white plumes at the base of the upper mandible and another over 
the eyes fonning a superciliary stripe; head and cheeks intense black ; hind-neck 
ash-brown, streaked with black ; mantle black, each feather margined on the sides 
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