Helmeted honeyeater

Helmeted honeyeater
Conservation status
Critically endangered  (EPBC Act)
CITES Appendix II (CITES)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Meliphagidae
Genus:	Lichenostomus
Species:	L. melanops
Subspecies:	L. m. cassidix
Trinomial name
Lichenostomus melanops cassidix (Gould, 1867)[2]
Synonyms
Ptilotis cassidix Gould, 1867 Lichenostomus cassidix

The helmeted honeyeater (Lichenostomus melanops cassidix) is a passerine bird in the honeyeater family. It is a distinctive and critically endangered subspecies of the yellow-tufted honeyeater, that exists in the wild only as a tiny relict population in the Australian state of Victoria, in the Yellingbo Nature Conservation Reserve. It is Victoria's only endemic bird, and was adopted as one of the state's official symbols.