YELLOW-THROATED FRIAR-BIRD. 
Philemon occidentalis iUimsay, Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.W. Ser. II., Vol. II., p. 676, March 
21st, 1888: Derby, North-west Australia,; id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, opp. p. 13, 
1888. 
Philemon orientalis orientalis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 423, Jan. 31st, 1912. 
Philemon orienkdis didimus Mathews, ih. : South Australia. 
Philemon orientalis johnsioni Mathews, ib. : Jolmston River, North Queensland. 
PhilemoJi orientalis occidentalis Mathew'S, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 423, 1912 ; id.. 
Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I, p. 63, 1912 (Eggs). 
PhiUmon orientalis sordidxi^ Matliews, ih. 
Philemon orienialis hreda Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. I., pt. 2, p. 51, April 2nd, 
1912 ; Melville Island. 
Microphilemon orientalis orienialis Mathews, Ijist Birds Austr., p. 293, 1913. 
Micro'philemon orientalis didimns Mathews, ib. 
Microphilemon orientalis johnsioni Mathews, ih. 
Microphilemon orientalis sordidus Mathews, ib. 
Microphilemon orientalis breda Mathews, ib. 
Microphilemon orienialis occidenialis Mathews, ih. ; id.. South Austr, Orn., Vol. 3, p. 226, 
1918. 
Microphilemon citreogtdaris Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. V., p. 39, 1923. 
Microphilemon citreogularis citreognlaris Mathews, ib., 
Microphilemon citreogularis didimns Mathews, ib. 
Microphilemon citreogularis johnsioni Mathews, ib. 
Microphilemon citreogularis sordidus Mathews, ib. 
Microphilemon citreogularis breda Mathews, ib. 
Microphilemon citreogularis occidentalis Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. Australia, but not South-west Australia. Not Tasmania. 
Adult male. General colour of the upper-surface earth-brown including the top of the 
head, nape, hinder face, back, upper tail-coverts, wings and tail; hind-neck and 
sides of neck grey; flight-quills and tad-feathers rather darker than the back; 
upper tail-coverts slightly tinged with wlute; cliin and tlu’oat wliitish-grey with 
hair-like tips to the feathers, becoming darker on the lower throat; fore-neck, 
breast, abdomen, sides of bodj^, tliighs, under tail-coverts, axillaries, and under¬ 
wing-coverts drab-grey ; under-surface of flight-quills hair-brown with wliite shafts ; 
lower aspect of tail greyish-brown with white shafts to the feathers. Eyes brown, 
feet and tarsus leaden-blue, bill black, cheeks leaden-blue, remainder of naked 
skin of the head black. Total length 282 mm.; cuhnen 30, wing 130, tail 117, 
tarsus 33. Figured. Collected on Melville Island, Northern Territory, on the 
6th of December, 1911, and is the type of P. o. hreda. 
AduU female similar to the adult male. 
Almost adult female. Head greyish-ash, each feather edged with wliitish; upper parts 
including the wings and tail grejdsh-ash, the latter with brownish shafts to the 
feathers ; a naked space above and beliind the eye ; chin and upper throat densely 
covered with hair-tike wliite feathers ; lower throat and chest light ash-grey, 
each feather with a small silvery-wliite tip ; remainder of the under-parts greyish- 
ash with dark centres to the feathers. Eyes brown, feet and tarsi black, bill black, 
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