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White-naped honeyeater
The white-naped honeyeater (''Melithreptus lunatus'') is a passerine bird of the honeyeater family Meliphagidae native to eastern Australia. Birds from southwestern Australia have been shown to be a distinct species, the Swan River honeyeater, and the eastern birds more closely related to the black-headed honeyeater of Tasmania. One of several similar species of black-headed honeyeaters in the genus ''Melithreptus'', it dwells in dry sclerophyll eucalypt woodland. Its diet consists of nectar from various flowers and insects.
== Taxonomy ==
The white-naped honeyeater was originally described as ''Certhia lunata'' by French ornithologist Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot in 1802.〔Vieillot, L.P. (1802). ''Oiseaux dorés au a reflets metalliques''. (published in 32 parts). Paris Vol. 2 ().〕 The specific name is derived from the Latin ''luna'', meaning "moon"; this refers to its crescent-shaped white marking on its nape. It is a member of the genus ''Melithreptus'' with several species, of similar size and (apart from the brown-headed honeyeater) black-headed appearance, in the honeyeater family Meliphagidae. The next closest relative outside the genus is the much larger but similarly marked blue-faced honeyeater. More recently, DNA analysis has shown honeyeaters to be related to the Pardalotidae (pardalotes), Acanthizidae (Australian warblers, scrubwrens, thornbills, etc.), and the Maluridae (Australian fairy-wrens) in a large Meliphagoidea superfamily.
The Swan River honeyeater from southwest Western Australia, this was initially described as a separate species by John Gould in 1844,〔Gould, J. (1848). ''The Birds of Australia''. 104 pls. London: J. Gould Vol. 4 (73 ).
〕 before being reclassified as a subspecies of the white-naped for many years. However, a molecular study published in 2010 showed that it had diverged before the split of populations in eastern Australia into the white-naped and black-headed honeyeaters.
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