2 1 MELIPHAGID^. 



c. feathers behind the eye generally peculiar in 

 shape, being; short, blacldsh at base, sillcy white 

 or yellow at terminal half, giving the postocular 



region a spotted appearance (Subgenus Stigmatops.) 



d'. Wings not edged with white. 



c". Ear-coverts brown ; upper parts uniform 

 olive-browu. 

 a'". Postocular feathers glossy yellow; under- 



parts dingy brownish white or grey . . ocularis, p. 213. 

 b'". A white subocular spot ; underparts 



white, faintly barred with brownish . . modesta, p. 21-5. 

 d". Ear-coverts silky or silvery white ; vmder- 

 parts brownish, mottled grey and white. 



c'". Crown ashy grey incana, p. 216. 



d'". Crown olive-brown poUotis, p. 217, 



e" . Ear-coverts and subocular region with sil- 

 very white spots. 

 e'". Feathers of breast brownish, edged mth 



white (dhimiricularis, 



f". Feathers of breast pale olive, with pecu- [p. 217. 



liar scale-shaped cross markings squamata, p. 217. 



e. Wings edged with white ; underparts white, 



upper parts fuscous nisoria, p. 218. 



1 . Glycyphila fulvifrons. 



? Black-eyed Creeper, Lath. Gen. Si/n. Siippl. ii. p. 165. 



Certhia raelanops, Lath. Ind. Orn. Suppl. p. xxxvi. 



Certhia melivora, Shaw, Gen. Zool. viii. pt. 1, p. 245. 



Certhia fulvifrons, Lexuin, B. New S. W. pi. 22 (18.38). 



Meliphaga albiventris, Steph. in Shade's Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 261. 



Philedon rubrilrons. Less. Voy. Coq. i. p. 646 (1826). 



Meliphaga fulvifrons, Vie/. Sf Horsf. Linn. Trans, xv. p. 317 (1827). 



Glyciphila fulvifrons, Sicains. Class. B. ii. p. 326 (1837) ; Cab. Mus. 



Jlein. i. p. 117 ; Bp. C. A. i. p. 393; Goidd, B. Austr. iv. pi. 28; 



id. Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 495 ; Iteichenb. Meruiiince, no. 268, 



pi. 487. figs. 3439-41; Gray, Iland-l. B. i. p. 155, no. 2002; 



Ramsay, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. IF. ii. p. 188. 

 Glyciphila melanops. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 119, pi. 38. fig. 2 (1847). 



Adult male. Forehead, under wing-coverts, and inner margin of 

 quills rich reddish fulvous ; a whitish streak extending from the 

 nostrils over the eye ; prseocular region and ear- coverts dark brown ; 

 hinder margin of ear-coverts pale fulvous or whitish ; feathers of 

 the mantle and hind neck dark brown, each feather with a paler 

 streak down the centre and slightly washed with olive ; lower back 

 and upper tail-coverts greyish brown ; wings, wing-coverts, and 

 tail blackish brown, the quills externally edged with olive-yellow 

 or jjale brown ; some of the innermost secondaries edged with whitish ; 

 throat, cheeks, centre of breast and abdomen, and under tail-coverts 

 dull white ; flanks washed with pale brownish grey ; feathers of the 

 •chest and sides of neck dull blackish brown edged with whitish, 

 giving these parts a somewhat mottled appearance ; " bill blackish 

 brown; feet greenish grey ; iris brown " (Gould). 



The female resembles the male in coloration, but is smaller. 



