Macleay's Honeyeater
Xanthotis macleayanus(Ramsay, EP, 1875)
English (US) Macleay's Honeyeater
The Macleay's Honeyeater (Xanthotis macleayanus) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Meliphagidae (Honeyeaters) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: northeastern Australia (Wet Tropics region, northern Queensland)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Xanthotis macleayanus
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Macleay's Honeyeater
- Described by
- (Ramsay, EP, 1875)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Ptilotis macleayana
- Described by
- (Ramsay, EP, 1875)
- Type locality
- Cardwell, northern Queensland; subsequent restriction to Cooktown, northern Queensland, by Mathews, 1924, Birds Australia, 11, p. 481, is invalid; cf., also, Hindwood, 1946, Rec. Austr. Mus., 21, p. 392.
- Original description
- Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1 p.10
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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