SPINY-CHEEKED HONEY-EATER. 
Acanthagenys rufogvlaris cygnus Mathews, Nov. ZooL, Vol. XVIII., p. 420, Jan. 31st, 1912 : 
Swan Island, Victoria; id,, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 63, 1912 (Eggs); id., List 
Birds Austr., p. 289, 1913; Belcher, Birds Geelong, p. 364, 1914; S. A. White, 
Emu, Vol. XIV., p. 191, 1916; id., ib., Vol. XV., p. 161, 1916 (S.A.) ; id., ib., Vol. 
XVI., pp. 16-76, 1916. 
Acanthagenys rufogularis fiavacanthtts Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 420, 1912 ; 
id., List Birds Austr,, p. 290, 1913. 
Acanthagenys rufogvlaris territori Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 420, Jan. 31st, 
1912 : Alexandra, Northern Territory; id., List Birds Austr., p, 290, 1913. 
Acanthagenys rufog'idaris wei Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 421, Jan. 31st, 1912 : 
Lake Way, West Australia ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 290, 1913. 
Acanthagenys rufogvlaris q^teenslandicus Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 421, Jan. 
31st, 1912 : North Queensland. 
Acanthogenys cygnus S. A. White, Emu, Vol. XII., p. 180, 1913 (S.A.). 
Acanihogenys rufogularis woolundra Mathews, Bull. Brit. Omith. Club, Vol. XL., p. 76, 
Jan. 30th, 1920 : Woolimdra, South-west Australia. 
Acanthogenys rufogxdaris augusta Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. V., pts. 2-3, p. 39, Feb. 
21st, 1923 : Port Augusta, South Australia. 
Distribution. Australia generally throughout the interior districts, not coastal. 
Adult. Top of head, hind-neck, sides of neck, mantle, back, and scapulars drab-grey 
with dark brown centres to the feathers ; upper tail-coverts wliitish with dark 
brown shaft-streaks, the long ones grey: upper wing-coverts blackish-brown 
with whitiali margins to the feathers: primary-coverts and flight quills dark 
brown slightly fringed with olive on the outer webs and broadly margined 
with buff on the inner ones of the latter, the innermost secondaries margined with 
white; tail blackish-brown; loral streak, eye-ring, and a patch behind the eye 
black, the last tipped with buff; a moustacial streak straw'-white, margined 
below, on the fore cheek with pale brown minutely dotted with white and with 
black on the hinder face ; lower pides of neck black margined above with pale sulphur- 
3nllow streaked with black ; chin, throat, and breast pale buff with dark hair-like 
tips to the feathers on the cliin, and more or less black on the sides of the breast: 
abdomen and sides of the body pale sulphur-yellow with dark brown centres to 
the feathers; thighs pale earth-brown; under tail-coverts white with dark shaft¬ 
lines ; axillaries and under wing-coverts buff; under-surface of flight-quills dark 
brown margined with pale buff; lower aspect of tail similar to its upper-surface 
but the dark pattern paler. Eyes dark, feet slate, bill black at the tip, with deep 
pink in the middle and light pi^ at the gape. Total length 238 mm.; culmen 20, 
wing 113, tail 112, tarsus 28. Figured. CoUected at Port Augusta, South Australia, 
on the 24th of August, 1912. 
The sexes are alike. 
Adult female. Top of head, sides of crown and nape dark brown with pale edgings to the 
feathers ; mantle, back, and scapular.^ dark brown with olive margins to the feathers ; 
upper tail-coverts straw-white with dark brown centres to the feathem; upper 
wing-coverts dark brown with whitish margins to the feathers ; flight-quills dark 
brown margined with buff\’'-wbite on the inner webs, the innermost secondaries 
broadly margined with white; tail blackish-brown tipped wliite; loral-streak, 
eye-ring, and feathers beliind the eye black; a silvery-white moustacial streak 
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