 English ornithologist John Latham described the noisy miner four times in his 1801 work <unk> <unk> <unk> , <unk> <unk> <unk> , seemingly not knowing it was the same bird in each case : the chattering bee @-@ eater ( Merops <unk> ) , black @-@ headed <unk> ( <unk> melanocephala ) , hooded bee @-@ eater ( Merops <unk> ) , and white @-@ fronted bee @-@ eater ( Merops <unk> ) . Early notes recorded its tendency to scare off prey as hunters were about to shoot . It was as the chattering bee @-@ eater that it was painted between 1792 and 1797 by Thomas <unk> , one of a group known collectively as the Port Jackson Painter . John Gould treated the name Merops <unk> as the original description , and renamed it <unk> <unk> in his 1865 work <unk> to the Birds of Australia , giving it the common name of garrulous honeyeater , and noting the alternate name of chattering honeyeater . He noted the colonists of Tasmania called it a miner , and aboriginal people of New South Wales called it <unk> . Que <unk> gang was a local aboriginal name from the Blue Mountains . 
