Macleay's honeyeater

Macleay's honeyeater
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Meliphagidae
Genus: Xanthotis
Species: X. macleayanus
Binomial name
Xanthotis macleayanus
(EP Ramsay, 1875)
Synonyms

Ptilotis macleayanus

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.

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