316 Mr. Vicors’s and Dr. Honsrirrp's Description of the 
Remiges fuscæ, subtus pallidiores, basi interne albescentes. Tec- 
trices inferiores fulvescenti-albidæ. Longitudo corporis, 44 ; 
ale a carpo ad remigem quartam, 244; caude,23.; rostri, 35; 
tarsi, 3. 
'l'his bird is said to be common by Mr. Caley, and to be called 
T leer by the natives. 
339** Cauda equali, rostro breviori, ont: 
11. Carpinatis. Mel. nigra; capite, dorso medio, uropygio, 
gutture, pectore, abdominisque lateribus coccineis; tectricum 
marginibus, abdomine imo, crissoque albis. 
Certhia Cardinalis. Gmel. i. p. 472. no. 38. 
Certhia Australasie? Leach, Zool. Misc. i. pl. 11. 
Le Soui-manga rouge et gris. Vieill. Ois. dor. ii. p. 58. pl. 36. 
Cardinal Honey-Sucker. Lath. Gen. Hist. iv. p. 199. no. 59. 
pl. 71. fig. 2. 
Mr. Caley informs us that he did not himself meet many birds 
of this species, although he understood them to be plentiful : 
his not meeting them probably arose, as he says, from their 
being inhabitants of brushes. His researches were chiefly in 
* This section forms an interesting subdivision of the present group, as marking the 
passage to the Cinnyride. When the species become more known, and the whole 
group becomes too numerous for remaining as a single genus, this type of form may be 
generically characterized as follows, the Mel. cardinalis being the normal species. 
Genus. MYZOMELA. 
Rostrum breve, gracile ; culmine arcuato, ad basin subcultrato ; näribus longitudinali- 
bus, linearibus, perangustis, membrana supra tectis, rostri tertiam partem longi- 
tudine æquantibus. 
- Lingua, ala, pedesque iidem fere ut in dMslipbogis veris. 
Cauda subbrevis, æqualis. 
Several new species of Honey- Eaters, lately brought home to this country from the 
Sandwich Islands by Capt. Lord Byron, R.N., appear to accord with this group. 
the 
