326 Mr.V1cons's and Dr. Honsrrerp's Description of the 
Genus. SERICULUS. Swains. 
1. CunxsocEgPHaLUs.* Ser. sericeo-ater ; capite supra, nuchá, 
fascidque mediá alarum aureo-flavis. 
Meliphaga chrysocephala. Lewin, Birds of New. Holl. pl. 6. 
Sericulus chrysocephalus. Swains. Zool. Journ. vol. i. p. 478. 
Loriot Prince-Régent. Temm. Pl. Col. 320. 
Golden-crowned Honey-Eater. Lath. Gen. Hist.iv. p. 184. no.38. 
The actual situation of this bird in the Order of Insessores 
remains hitherto undetermined. Nothing has transpired re- 
specting its habits or internal structure to make us either alter, 
or retain with any confidence, the place originally assigned it 
by Mr. Lewin. | 
Genus. Mimera*. King. 
1. Viripis. Mim, olivaceo-viridis, subtus albida, nigro guttatim 
striata; alis caudáque nigro-fuscis, illis albido-marginatis, hac 
apice albo. 
* We insert the following characters of the female of this species, which we have 
taken from a fine specimen in the collection of Mr. Leadbeater. A figure has been 
given of it by M. Duperrey, in the 20th plate of the ** 'oyage autour du Monde." 
Fœm. brunnea, dorso pectoreque albido-lunulatis; vertice, gulæ medi torqueque nu- 
chali nigris ; abdomine albido, brunneo-lunulato. - 
Frontis occipitisque plume pallidiori-brunneæ, in medio albido-lineatæ. Ale brunneæ, 
pogoniis internis fuscis ad basin albidescentibus; subtus fuscescentes, pogoniis 
internis pallido-flavo marginatis. Tectrices inferiores pallidé flave, fusco-brunneo 
lunulate. Rectrices brunneæ, subtus subfusce pallidé flavescentes. Rostrum 
pedesque nigri. Longitudo corporis, 103; ale a carpo ad remigem quartam, 54; 
rostri, 155 ; caude, 43 ; tarsi, 18. 
À young male bird in the collection of Mr. Leadbeater, exhibits exactly the same 
plumage as the female, with the exception of some golden-coloured feathers appearing 
on the back part of the head, and the shafts of the secondary quill-feathers being of the 
same colour. 
+ We have taken the liberty of altering the orthography of this word from Mimetes 
to Mimeta; the former word having been already appropriated by Mr. Brown to a 
genus of plants in these Transactions (vol. x. p. 105). 
Gracula 
