Honeyeaters (Meliphagidae)

Bar-breasted Honeyeater (Ramsayornis fasciatus) - HBW 13, p. 627

French: Méliphage fascié German: Wellenbrust-Honigfresser Spanish: Mielero Pechibarrado
Other common names: Fasciated/White-breasted Honeyeater

Taxonomy: Glyciphila fasciata Gould, 1843, Port Essington, Northern Territory, Australia.
Suggestions that populations from E Australia are intermediate between present species and R. modestus are not supported by any studies. No significant regional variation in plumage and size; proposed races apsleyi (from Melville I) and broomei (from Napier Broome Bay, in Kimberley Division) considered insufficiently differentiated. Monotypic.

Distribution: N Western Australia (Kimberley Division), Melville I and Top End of Northern Territory E to S Gulf of Carpentaria and N & E Queensland (Cape York Peninsula S to Atherton, and S on E coast to Rockhampton).