Australian Birds in the Collection of the Linnean Society. 317 
the forest scrubs, where his specimens were procured. The 
colonists call this bird Little Soldier. 
This division of the group of Meliphaga is that to ch: we 
have alluded above as offering few external marks of distinction 
from many of the Cinnyride, besides the form of the nostrils. 
***** Cauda æquali, rostro graciliori, longiori. 
19. Tenurrosrris. Mel. supra cinerea; abdomine crissoque fer- 
rugineis; regione interhumerali, maculáque jugulari sub-lunu- 
lari brunneis; capite, pectoris lateribus, rectricibusque nigris ; 
harum duarum externarum apicibus, gutture, juguloque albis. 
Certhia tenuirostris. Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp. p. xxxvi. no. 5. 
Le Cap-noir. Vieill. Ois. dor. ii. p. 94. pl. 60. 
Slender-billed Honey-Eater. Lath. Gen. Hist. iv. p. 194. no. 52. 
pl. 72. 
Mr. Caley observes that he has seen this bird both at Sydney 
and at Paramatta. 
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18 troie. Mel. 1. palidè e MM teniá su- 
perciliari, gutture, pectore, abdomine medio, crissoque albis ; 
fronte fulvo; strigä per oculos, pectorisque lateribus brunneis. 
Var.? sincipite canescente. 
Striga brunnea per oculos extendit regionem paroticam inclu- 
dens, et ad latera pectoris descendens, ubi fasciam lunula- 
rem brunneam interruptam ferè efformat.  Interscapulium 
brunneo-fuscum, pallido-fusco parcé striatum. Remiges 
brunneo fuscæ externè albido graciliter marginatæ, pogo- 
niis internis ad basin fulvo-marginatis: subtus pallide fuscæ, 
fulvo, ut superne, notatz. Tectrices inferiores fulvæ. Rec- 
trices brunneo-fuscæ, subtus pallidè fuscæ. Rostrum, pedes- 
que nigri. Longitudo corporis, 517 ; ale a carpo ad remi- 
gem quartam, 3; caude, 24; rostri, 3, ; tarsi, 4s. ő 
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