264 meliphagid-t:. 



AntLoclifera inauris, Gould, B. Austr. iv. pi, 54 ; id. Ilandh. B. 

 Au»tr. i. p. 436 ; Cab. Mus. Ilein. i. p. 120 ; Bp. C. A. i. p. 389 ; 

 liamsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 190. 



Adult. Crown of head and hind neck dark brown, each feather with 

 a broad greyish-white margin ; wing-coverts and mantle dark brown, 

 with greyish edges and whitish shafts ; rump and upper tail-coverts 

 brownish grey ; greater wing-coverts and remiges blackish brown, 

 externally edged with greyish white ; central pair of tail-feathers 

 brownish grey, the others blackish brown with large white tips ; the 

 lores and the subocular region covered with very small feathers, 

 which are blackish at their bases and whitish at their tips ; super- 

 cilium, cheeks, upper throat, and a patch on each side of the 

 neck white ; centre of breast and abdomen bright yellow ; the 

 feathers of the chest, breast, and under wing-coverts dull white, with 

 broad brown subtcrminal patches ; flanks, under tail-coverts, and 

 thighs brownish white ; inner margin of quiUs isabelline ; the 

 feathers of the throat and fore neck lanceolate, blackish at base, 

 whitish at their terminal half, and with a silky white subtcrminal 

 patch ; the bare region between the eye and car orange-yellow, like 

 the long pendulous wattle into which the skin beneath the ear- 

 opening is transformed; "bill black; iris black-brown; feet light 

 flesh-colour; claws black " ((?omW). Culmen 1-1-1 inch, wing 

 6-2-7, tail 8-9, tarsus 1-6. The ear-wattle is about one inch or 

 more in length. 

 Hah. Tasmania. 



a. S ad. St. Tasmania. Purchased. 



h, c. Ad. sk. Tasmania. Antarctic Expedition. 



d. Ad. sk. Tasmania. Antarctic Expedition. 



e. Ad, sk. Tasmania, F. D. Godman and 0. Sal- 



vin, Esqrs. [P.]. 



3. Acanthochsera mellivora. 



Oerthia mellivora, Lath. Ind. Orn. Siqypl. p. xxxvii (1801). 



Goruck Creeper, Shmv, Gen. Zool. viii. p. 243. 



Mellivorous Creeper, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. ii. p, 166. 



Merops chrysopterus, Lath. Ind. Orn. Suppl. p. xxxiii. 



Mellivorous Honey-eater, Lath. Gen. Hist. iv. p. 161. 



Anthochsera mellivora, Viff. •Sr Horsf. Linn. Trans, xv. p. 321 (1826) ; 



Gould, B. Austr. iv. pi. 56 ; Bp. C. A. i. p. 389 ; Biggies, Orn. 



Austr, pi. ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 159, no. 2005. 

 Anellobia mellivora, Cah. Mus. Hein. i. p. 120 (18,50); Gould, Handh. 



B. Austr. i. p. 541 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 190. 

 Melichaera mellivora, Keichenb. Ilandh. sjjec. Orn. p. 130. 



Adult. All the upper parts, including the head, blackish brown, 

 each feather with the shaft and small tip white, and towards the 

 margin washed with olive-grey ; wings and tail dark brown ; most 

 of the primaries and tail-feathers with white tips ; secondaries and 

 central tail-feathers washed with olive-grey ; basal half or two thirds 

 of the inner web of the primaries rich fulvous ; all the underparts 



