1. Sacramela plumula. Yellow-Fronted Hon…

This image of the Yellow-tinted Honeyeater and the Grey-fronted Honeyeater is from the last great bird series, The Birds of Australia by G. Matthews and rarer than John Gould’s work on Australian birds, with only 225 sets made. It was the last series produced using the laborious process of hand colouring each individual lithograph..

Common name: Yellow-tinted honeyeater
Binomial name: Ptilotula flavescens
First described: Gould 1840.
Distribution: WA, NT, QLD 

Common name: Grey-fronted honeyeater
Binomial name: Ptilotula plumula
First described: Gould 1839.
Distribution: WA, NT, QLD, NSW & VIC.