White-fronted honeyeater

White-fronted honeyeater
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Meliphagidae
Genus: Purnella
Mathews, 1914
Species: P. albifrons
Binomial name
Purnella albifrons
(Gould, 1841)

The white-fronted honeyeater (Purnella albifrons) is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family. Formerly in the genus Phylidonyris, it was subsequently placed in the monotypic Purnella. It is endemic to Australia where its natural habitat is Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation.

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