4. cmtACTEEis. 337 



Hah. From Port Denison southwards along the east coast of Aus- 

 tralia, and ranging through Xew South Wales to Victoria and South 

 Australia. 



Sal- 



6. Climacteris scandens. 



BufF-wiuged Honey-eater, Lath. Gen. Mist. iv. p. 178 (1822). 



? Petrocb-oma Bailloui, Vkill. Nouv. Bid. ed. 2, xsvi. p. 107 (1819) ; 



id. Gal. Ois. pi. 172; Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 310. 

 Climacteris scandens, Temm. PI. Col. 281. fig. 2 (1838) ; Kittlitz, Kupf. 



Vog.'^l. 6. fig. 1 ; Heichenb. Handb. spec. Orn., Scans, no. 637, pi. 565 ; 



Gould, Handb. B. Atistr. i. p. 598 ; id. B. Austr. pi. 93 ; id. P. Z. S. 



1867, p. 970 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 145 ; id. Hand-l. B. i. p. 184, 



no. 2523; iV/. iSis, 1862, p. 218; v. Pebeln, Sitz. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 



xli. p. 320; E. P. Ramsaij, Proc. Linn. Soc. JV. S. W. 1878, 



p. 191. 

 Climacteris picumnus, Gould, B. Austr. pi. 98 (ef. Heichenb. I, c). 



A. Southern Race. 



Adult male. Crown of head dark or blackish brown, most of the 

 feathers with greyish edgings ; hind neck, mantle, and most of the 

 upper wing- coverts dark olive-brown ; rump, upper tail-coverts, and 

 tail-feathers dark blue-grey, the latter with a very broad band of 

 blackish brown and with narrow whitish tips ; quills brown, with a 

 pale fawn-coloured band across the wing ; sides of head and ear- 

 coverts dark brown with whitish central streaks ; chin, cheeks, fore 

 neck, and centre of breast white, with a creamy buff tinge on the 

 lower breast and centre of abdomen ; each feather of the sides, 

 flanks, and under tail-coverts white, with a subterminal or marginal 

 line of dark brown ; under wing-coverts and asillaries almost white ; 

 edge of wing mottled with brown ; " bill black, the under mandible 

 horn-colour at the base ; feet blackish brown " (Gould). Total 

 length about (3 inches, culmen 0"8, wing3-4-3-7, tail 2-5, tarsus 0-9. 



Female. Like the male in colour, but distinguished by a small 

 orange-red spot just below the ear-coverts. 



Hab. New South Wales to South Australia ; Norfolk Island. 



B. North-eastern Race. 



In the British Museum there are two males and one female (ob- 

 tained near Moreton Bay) which have a well pronounced pale grey 

 coUar across the fore neck ; aU the other parts are coloured as in G. 

 scandens. They are slightly smaller in theii" dimensions. A third 

 male, from the same country, is intermediate in size and colour 

 between this smaller race and the typical C. scandens, the greyish 

 crescent being only very faintly indicated, 



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