Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 698. 
FamUy MELITHREPTIBM. 
NEOPHILEMON YORKI. 
HELMETED FRIAR-BIKD. 
(Plate 665.) 
Philemon buceroides yorki Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 4, p. 102, Sept. 18th, 
1912 : Cape York, Queensland. 
Tropidorhynchus buceroides Gould, Birds Austr., Suppl., pi. 44 (pt. n.). Sept. 1st, 1856 ; 
Not Philedon buceroides Swednson, Axum. in Menag., p. 325, Dec. ]837. 
id,, Handb. Bii*ds Austr., Vol. I., p, 647j 1865; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., 
p. 100, 1908 ; Macgillivray, Emu, Vol. X., pp. 216-230, 1910 (N.Q.); Barnard, ib,, 
Vol. XI., p. 28, 1911 (N.Q.); Campbell, ib,, Vol. XIII., p. 69, 1913 (Egg); 
Macgillivray, ib,, p. 180, 1914 (N.Q.); Campbell and Barnard, ib., Vol. XVII., p. 34, 
1917 (N.Q.); Macgillivray, ib., p. 207, 1918 (N.Q.); Campbell, ib„ Vol. XX., p. 64, 
1920 (N.Q.). 
Philemon buceroides Ramsay, Proc. linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 190, 1878; Gadow, 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IX., p. 272, 1884 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, 
p. 13, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 45, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. 
Birds, Vol. I., p. 434, 1901; Le Souef, Emu, Vol. II., p. 148, 1903 (N.T.); Mathews, 
Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 422, 1912; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. 
IL, p. 171, 1907. 
Philemon buceroides yorki Matliews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 4, p. 102, Sept. 18th, 
1912 : Cape York, Queensland. 
Neophilemon buceroides buceroides Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 292, 1913; id.. South 
Austr. Om., Vol. 2, p. 60, 1915. 
Neophilemon buceroides yorki Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 292, 1913. 
Neophilemon orienialis Mathews', Austral Av. Rec., Vol. V., p. 39, Feb. 21st, 1923. 
Neophilemon orienialis orienialis Mathews, ib. 
Neophilemon orienialis yorki Mathews, ib, 
NeopMUmonorierUalisconj'imtsMath.evr^, AxistrsA Ay. Rec., Vol. V., p, 39, Feb. 21st, 1923: 
Cairns, Nortli Queensland. 
Bistribtjtion. Cape York Peninsula, Queensland; Melville Island. 
Adult male. General colour of the upper-surface dark drab-grey, including the back, 
rump, upper tail-coverts, scapulars, and upper wing-coverts ; bastard-wing and 
flight-quills hair-brown, margined with white on the basal portion of the inner 
webs of the latter; tail-feathers dark brown with pale margins and inclining to whitish 
at the tips; top of head and nape silvery-white with dark brown centres to the 
feathers, which are lanceolate in form ; sides of neck darker than the nape and 
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