318 Mr. Vicors’s and Dr. HonsrrErp's Description of the 
One of the specimens of this species in the collection was 
brought by Mr. Brown from Port Jackson, where he met with 
it in August 1803. The species comes very near the first sub- 
division of this genus, having a stronger bill, and rather more 
elongated toes than the birds of the present section. The shape 
of its tail however, which is even, retains it in its present situa- 
tion, but at that extreme of the section which joins the first sub- 
division, and completes the circular succession of the whole 
group. 
This species bears some resemblance to M.Vieillot's Heorotaire 
brun (pl. 65.), the Certhia fusca, Gmel.; but it is differently 
marked on the throat and lower body; ; and as it Belongs to a 
different locality it may be considered distinct. 
Genus. MYZANTHA*. 
Rostrum forte, subbreve, subrectum, ad apicem compressum, 
culmine carinato, paululum arcuato; naribus linearibus, 
anticè ovalibus, membranâ suprà tectis, ad basin plumulis 
confertis opertis ; mandibulá superiori leviter emarginata. 
Ale mediocres, subrotundatæ : remige prima brevi, secundá du- 
plo longiore, tertià pauld breviore quartá et quinta, quee 
sunt æquales longissimæque omnium. 
Pedes mediocres ; acrotarsiis.scutellatis, paratarsiis THESE 
Cauda subelongata, subrotundata. 
Obs. Orbite nude. 
This group approaches very nearly to the shorter- and stronger- 
billed birds of Meliphaga, such as M. auricomis, Lath. ; but the 
bill is considerably stouter at the base and less arcuated. The 
nares also are not so: linear, but become slightly oval towards 
the anterior part. The space round the eye is naked. We are 
assured that the tongue of the first species is bristly towards the 
* Motao sugo, and av6og flos. > 
point : 
