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Honeyeaters

Family: Meliphagidae

There are approximately 200 species in the Meliphagidae family. Many of these are honeyeaters. The family also includes myzomela, friarbirds, spinebills, straightbills, wattlebirds, miners, melidectes and myzas.

Honeyeaters are mainly found in Australia and New Guinea but species also occur in New Zealand and on some South Pacific islands.


Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 13: Penduline Tits to Shrikes Edited by Josep Del Hoyo, Andrew Elliott and David Christie Lynx Edicions 2008 879 pages, 60 colour plates, 536 colour photos, 611 distribution maps. This volume covers nuthatches, wallcreeper, treecreepers, philippine creepers, penduline tits, painted berrypeckers, berrypeckers and longbills, sunbirds, flowerpeckers, pardalotes, white-eyes, sugarbirds, honeyeaters, old world orioles, true shrikes.	Buy from amazon.co.uk

Handbook of Australian, New Zealand, and Antarctic Birds: Volume 5: Tyrant-flycatchers to Chats Editor: P. J. Higgins, J.M. Peter, W.K. Steele Illustrations: Jeff Davies Oxford University Press 2001 "HANZAB is one of the world's major ornithological projects. The first four volumes have attracted several awards, critical praise and an international market. Volume 5 covers 118 species: kingbirds and tyrant-flycatchers; New Zealand wrens; pittas; lyrebirds; scrub-birds; Australian tree-creepers; Australasian wrens (fairy-wrens, grasswrens, and emu-wrens); honeyeaters and chats."	Buy from amazon.co.uk

Honeyeaters and their Allies of Australia Editor: Wayne Longmore Birds Of Australia series The National Photographic index of Australian Wildlife Angus & Robertson 1991 "Includes coverage of honeyeaters, sunbirds, flowerpeckers, pardalotes and white-eyes."	Buy from amazon.co.uk

Australian Honeyeaters Brigadier Hugh R. Officer The Bird Observers Club 1964

Distributuion of the Australian Honeyeaters G.R. Gannon Australian Ornithological Union 1962 22 page booklet originally published as a paper in the journal Emu (Vol 62, Part 3).

Catalogue Of The Passeriformes or Perching Birds In The Collection Of The British Museum Cinnyrimorphae, containing the families Nectariniidae and Meliphagidae Catalogue Of The Birds In The British Museum, Volume IX Hans Gadow 8 colour plates: J. Smit Printed By Order Of The Trustees Printed by Taylor & Francis 1884 Preface: "The Ninth Volume of the 'Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum' contains an account of all the species of Cinnyrimorphae known at present, and was prepared by the author of the previous volume, Dr. H. Gadow. The total number of species described amounts to 355, of which 291 are in the British Museum; they are represented by 2450 specimens. Of the principal donors I have to mention B. H. Hodgson, Esq., Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill, F. D. Godman, Esq., 0. Salvin, Esq., Sir John Kirk, W. E. and C. G. Gates, Esqrs., H. Seebohm, Esq., A. 0. Hume, Esq., W. Davidson, Esq., Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay, and Capt. Trevelyan. The proof-sheets were again revised by Mr. Sharpe, but submitted to the author before sending them to the press."