Endemic throughout southern
               Australia...key pollinator of
               many flowering plant species.
          
         
            
               Phylidonyris novaehollandiae
            
               (L 6.3-7.5")
          
         
            
               Hilltop Motel
            
               Ouyen
            
               28Oct2015
          
         
            
               The new holland honeyeater’ for a bird
               such a strange name
            
               The name given to australia when the
               europeans first came.
                (Francis Duggan)
          
         
            
               © Marc
               Anderson
            
               xeno-canto
          
         
            
               Phylidonyris is French for
               honeyeater; novaehollandia
               in Mod Latin means New
               Holland, 17th & 18th C.
               name for eastern Australia.