Macleay's honeyeater (Xanthotis macleayanus) Description
Xanthotis macleayanus
English: A Macleay's Honeyeater in Daintree, Queensland, Australia.
Date 19 April 2012, 19:11
Source Macleay's Honeyeater http://www.flickr.com/photos/gregthebusker/7155284303/
Author Greg Schechter from San Francisco, USA http://www.flickr.com/people/17004938@N00
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Xanthotis_macleayanus_-Daintree,_Queensland,_Australia-8.jpg
The Macleay's honeyeater (Xanthotis macleayanus) is a honeyeater endemic to Australia. Within Australia it has a limited distribution, occurring only in northern Queensland from Cooktown to the southern end of the Paluma Range. Its natural habitats are tropical dry forests and tropical moist lowland forests. Order: Passeriformes, Family: Meliphagidae, Genus: Xanthotis, Species: Xanthotis macleayanus (EP Ramsay, 1875).
Synonyms:
Ptilotis macleayanus
Xanthotis macleayana