About Melithreptus brevirostris (Vigors & Horsfield, 1827)
The brown-headed honeyeater, scientifically known as Melithreptus brevirostris (Vigors & Horsfield, 1827), is a small honeyeater. It measures 13 to 15 cm (5.2–6 inches) in total length. Its upperparts are olive-brown, while its underparts are buff. It has a brown head, brown nape, and brown throat, with a patch of bare cream or orange skin above the eye, and a dull white crescent-shaped patch on the nape. Its legs and feet are orange, and it produces a scratchy chwik-chwik-chwik call. This species is distributed from central-southern Queensland, south through central and eastern New South Wales (generally found west of the Great Dividing Range), across Victoria, and into eastern South Australia. In eastern South Australia, it occurs in the Flinders Ranges, around the lower Murray River region, and on the Eyre Peninsula. A subspecies, M. b. leucogenys, lives in south-western Western Australia.
