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514. Back green ; abdomen yellow or white ; throat black (male) or green 



(female). Falcunxulus. Shrike-Tits. 515 



Plumage all blackish-green. Psophodes. Coachwhip-Birds. 516 



515. Abdomen yellow. F. fvontatus (Yellow-bellied Shrike-Tit). 

 Abdomen white. ' F. Icucogaster (White-bellied Shrike-Tit). 



516. Length about 10 inches. (Crown brownish in youth) . . . . 517 

 Length about 6.25 inches. (Male has white marks on side of throat 



and chest, which female has not.) 



P. nigrogularis (Black-throated Coachwhip-Bird). 



517. Lateral feathers of tail tipped white ; wing 3.7 inches ; tail 5.3 inches. 



P. crepitans (Coachwhip-Bird). 

 Lateral feathers of tail tipped brown ; wing 3.95 inches ; tail 5 inches. 



P. lateralis. 



518. Length 7 to 10 inches : plumage olive-green, greyish, or yellowish- 



brown ; bill yellow ; small patch of naked yellow skin behind 

 ear. Maxorhina. Miners. 519 



Bill not yellow ; no naked yellow skin behind ear . . . . 523 



519. General colour greyish or yellowish-brown ; length 9 to 10 inches 520 

 General colour olive-green ; length about 7 inches. 



M. inelanoplirys (Bell Miner). 



520. General colour greyish . . . . . . . . . . 521 



General colour yellowish-brown ; ear coverts black, edged silky 



white ; wing 4.8 inches. M. lutea (Yellow Miner). 



521. Rump white ; wing 5.2 inches. M. flavigiila (Yellow-throated Miner). 

 Rump not white . . . . . . . . . . . . 522 



522. Crown olive ; ear coverts black ; wing 5.5 inches. 



il/. obsciira (Dusky Miner). 

 Crown black ; forehead white ; wing 5.2 to 5.8 inches. 



M. garriila (Noisy Miner). 



523. Plumage ashy ; or black and white streaked ; bright yellow in the 



wings ; length 5.5 to 7 inches. Meliornis. 524 



Plumage otherwise . . . . . . . . . . 528 



524. Plumage black and white streaked . . . . . . . . 525 



Plumage ashy above ; black crescent on whitish breast (male) or 



under surface smoky (female). 



M. aiistralasiana (Crescent Honey-eater). 



525. Feathers of fore-neck short and entirely black . . . . . . 526 



Feathers of fore-neck long, black, edged and tipped white . . 527 



526. Bill .8 inch long ; wing 2.75 inches. 



M. sericea (White-cheeked Honey-eater). 

 Bill I inch : wing 3 inches ; cheek and ear patch very large and 

 pointed. M. mystacalis (Moustached Honey-eater). 



y2j. Bill about .7 inch ; cheek and forehead marks large. 



M. novcB-hollandice (White-bearded Honey-eater). 

 Bill .8 to .9 inch ; cheek and forehead marks small. 



M. longirostris (Long-billed Honey-eater). 

 528. Plumage mostly olive above ; yellowish or streaked below ; other 

 colours white and brown ; ear coverts always different from 

 rest of head ; tail forked. Ptilotis. 529 



Plumage not as specified . . . . . . . . . . 553 



