Order PA88ERIF0RME8. 
No. 696. 
Family MELITHREPTIDM. 
ACANTHAGENYS RUFOGULARIS. 
SPINY-CHEEKED HONEY-EATER. 
(Plate 553.) 
Acanthagenys rtjeogularis Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., pi. (69), Apl. 1st. 1838- 
New South Wales. 
Acanthagenys* rufogularisf Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., pi. (69), Apl. 1st, 1838; 
id., Proc. Zool. Soc. (Loud.), 1837, p. 153, Dec. 1838; id., Birds Austr., pt. xvi. (Vol. 
IV., pi. 53), Sept. 1st, 1844; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 534, 1865; 
Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 190, 1878 ; id.. Tab. last Austr. Birds, 
p. 13, 1888 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 427, 1901; Berney, 
Emu, Vol. V., p. 76, 1905 (N.Q.) ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. II., 
p. 157, 1907 ; Mathews, Ilandl. Birds Austral, p. 99, 1908 ; Dove, Emu, Vol. WIL, 
p. 70, 1908 (Vic.); Gibson, ib., Vol. IX., p. 75, 1909 (W.A.); Crossman, ib., p. 90 
(W.A.); Wliitlock, ib., p. 211, 1910 (W.A.); Wilson, ib., Vol. XII., p. 38, 1912 (Vic.); 
S. A. White, ib., p. 125, 1912 (S.A.); id., ib., Vol. XIII., pp. 32, 128, 131, 1913-14; 
Chandler, ib., p. 44 (Vic.); Orton and Sandland, ib., p. 80 (W.A.) ; Cheney, ib. 
Vol. XIV., p. 212, 1915 (Vic.); Whitlock, ib., Vol. XVII., p. 175, 1918 (W.A); 
S. A. Wliite, ib., Vol. XVIII., pp. 24-198, 1918-19 (S.A.); Campbell, ib., p. 264 
(W.A.); Mellor, ib., Vol. XX., p. 139, 1921 (W.A.); McGilp, ib., Vol. XXII., p. 287, 
1923; Whitlock, ib., Vol. XXIII., p. 277, 1924. 
AcanthochoeraX.rufigularis Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IX., p. 265, 1884; Hall, Key 
Birds Austr., p. 45, 1899 ; Hill, Emu, Vol. II., p. 164, 1903 (Vic.) ; Carter, ib., 
Vol. m., p. 93, 1903 (M.W.A.); Hill, ib., Vol. VIL, p. 19, 1907 (Vic.); Howe, 
ib., Vol. IX., p. 234, 1910 (Vic.). 
Anthochcera rodorhyncha Cotton, Tasm. Journ. Nat. Sci., Vol. III., No. 5, p. 362, July 
1848 : Upper Goulburn River, Victoria. 
Acanthagenys flavacanihus Campbell, Victorian Naturalist, Vol. XVI., p. 3, May 1st, 1899 : 
North-west Cape, Mid-west Austraha; id.. Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., 
p. 429, 1901. 
Acanthagenys rufogularis rufogularis Mathews, Nov. Zook, Vol. XVIII., p. 420, 1912; 
id., List Birds Austr., p. 289, 1913. 
* Also spelt Acanthogenya, f Also spelt rufigularia, I Also spelt correctly Anthochcera. 
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