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Striped Honeyeater
Plectorhyncha lanceolata Gould, 1838
Meliphagidae — Honeyeaters
Striped Honeyeater Plectorhyncha lanceolata is a honeyeater of the family Meliphagidae in eastern Australia, with a breeding range from north-central Queensland to south-eastern South Australia and south-central New South Wales. It was described by Gould in 1838. The bird is marked by dark centres to the feathers that create a striped look, most clearly on the head and the back of the neck. It occurs mainly in inland eastern Australia in drier open forest, and also in coastal swamp forest from south-east Queensland to the central coast of New South Wales.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Meliphagidae — Honeyeaters
- Breeding range
- Australasia: nc QLD to se SA and sc NSW (e, se Australia)
