Lichmera indistincta, the Brown honeyeater, is back.
For a drink in the birdbath.
You may remember I had trouble identifying them once, even though I'd even seen them in the bloody city itself.
Why, wondered I, are they called "brown" when they're obviously not that colour?
(See entry for 20th August 2008.)
Hence "indistincta"?

Well, while I was in Bris (not Bane), the spiffy joint I was staying in -- of which more later -- had the old Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds.
The one strangely divided into passerines and non-passerines, and which separates the pictures from the descriptions.
More or less useless.

But when I had a good read about our mutual friend, I found that the observant Peter S. noted that the Brown honeyeater ought to be called "Brown's honeyeater" after the first (white) person to observe it: one Robert Brown.

A bird by an other name is still worth a hand in the bush?

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