SIELirilAGA. 



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Ad. S • Culmen 0-7-0'8 inrh, wing 3-4, tail 2-5, tarsus 0-78. 

 Ad. $. „ 0-75, „ „ 3-25, „ 2-5, „ 0-76. 

 Hab. Southern and Western Australia. 



a. S ad. ; b. Juv. sk. South Austialia. F. 1). Godinan and 0. Salvin, 



Esqrs. [P.]. 

 c. J imm. sk. South Australia. Sir T. Mitchell [P.]. 



rf. [ d' ] ad. sk. South Austraha. Gould Collection. 



3. MELIPHAGA. 



Type. 



Meliphaga, Leicin, Bird< of Xcw IlnUand (1808) M. phrygia. 



-Melliphafza, Lcsmn, Traite d'Orn. i. p. .'Wl (1831) M. phrygia. 



Zauthoniiza, Swainso)!, (llassif. Birds, ii. p. 326 (1837) . . M. phrygia. 



Zauthomyza, Gould, B. iustr. iv. pi. 48 M. plirygia. 



Xanthouiyza, Beichenb. JIandb. sjjec. Orn. fig. 3407 (1852) M. phrygia. 



Eill equal to the rest of the head in length, broad at base, curved ; 

 culmen with a prominent ridge. Tail much rounded, five sixths 

 the length of the wing. Pattern of colour very bright yellow and 

 black, much spotted and barred ; inner webs of remiges grey, with- 

 out paler or fulvous edges. All the rest as in Ptilotis, Length of 

 wing 4"2-4'5 inches. 



Range. Australia. 



1. Meliphaga phrygia. 



Merops phrvgius, Lath. Ind. Orn., Suppl. p. xxxiv ; Shaio, Zool. New 



Holl. p. 13, pi. 4 (171)4). 

 Black and Yellow Bee-eater, Lafh. Gen. Syn. Suppl. ii. p. 154 ; id. 



Gen. Hist. iv. p. 165. 

 Le Merle ecaille, Levaill. Ois. d:Afr. iii. pi. 116. 

 Meliphaga phrvgia, Lewin, B. Neio Holland, pi. 14 (1808); Cab. 



Mus. Hein. 1 p. 119; Bp. C. A. i. p. 391; Goukl, Handb. B. 



Austr. i. p. 527 ; Grai/, Hund-l. B. i. p. 156, no. 2016 ; Ramsay, 



Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. TV. ii. p. 189. 

 ? Turdus squamatus, Vieill. Nouv. Diet, (teste auctt.). 

 Philemon phrvgius, Bonn, et Vieill. Encycl. Meth. ii. p. 617 ; id, 



Nouv. Diet, xxvii. p. 428. 

 Anthochrera phrvgia, Viy. ^- Horsf. Linn. Trans. 1826, p. 322. 

 Zauthomiza phrygia, Swain>:. Class. B. ii. p. 326 (1837). 

 Zanthomyza phrygia, Gould, B. Austr. iv. pi. 48. 

 Xantlioniyza phrygia, lieichenb. Handb. spec. Ornifh. figs. 3467-69 ; 



iJiyglcs, Orn. Austr. pi. & text. 



Adult. Head and neck black, with the exception of the ocular 

 region and the cheeks, which are bare and covered with wart-like 

 excrescences : mantle, back, and wing-coverts black, each feather 

 broadly edged with whitish yellow ; wings and tail black, with large 

 edges, tips, or subtermiual jxitches of ])ale yellow ; the three or 

 four outer pairs of tail-feathers entirely yellow at their terminal 

 half ; feathers of breast and Hanks black, with a very distinct sub- 

 terminal arrow-shaped bar of yellowish white ; abdomen and under 

 tail-coverts more luiiforra wiiitish vellow ; axillaries and under 



