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spotted very distinctly with chestnut and reddish brown, in- 

 terspersed with obscure dashes of purpHsh grey. 



Head, chin, and throat black ; over the eye a narrow line 

 of white ; ears covered by a conspicuous tuft of white feathers, 

 which are closely set, and terminate in a point towards the 

 back ; upper surface brownish black, the feathers edged with 

 white ; under surface white, with a broad stripe of black down 

 the centre of each feather ; wings and tail blackish brown, 

 conspicuously margined with bright yellow ; irides brown ; 

 bill black ; feet blackish brown. 



Total length 6^ inches ; bill 1 ; wing 3 ; tail 2f . 



Genus LICHMERA, Cahanis. 



Of this form I consider there is only one species known, 

 the L. ausfrcdasiana, for I cannot agree with M. Cabanis in 

 associating with it the Glycephala {Stigmaiops) ocularis. 



Lichnera differs from Meliornis in presenting a considerable 

 variation in the colouring of the sexes, in other respects it is 

 very similar. 



Sp. 300. LICHMERA AUSTRALASIANA. 



Tasmanian Honey-eater. 

 U Heorotaire noir et blanc, Vieill. Ois. Dor., t. ii. pi. 55. p. 89. 

 Certhia australasiana, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. viii. p. 226. 



pyrrho'ptera, Lath. Ind. Orn., Supp. p.xxxviii? 



Meliphaga austraIasiana,Y'ig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans.^ vol. xv. p. 313. 

 Meliphaga inornata, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc, part v. 1837, p. 152. 

 Melithreptus melanoleucus, Vieill., 2* edit, du Nouv. Diet. d^Hist. Nat., 



toui. xiv. p. 328. 

 Lichmera australasiana, Cab. Mus. Hein., Theil i. p. 118. 



Meliphaga australasiana, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., vol. iv. 

 pi. 27. 



This little Honey-eater is abundantly dispersed over every 



part of Tasmania, South Australia, and New South Wales. 



