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Forehead and under surface of the wing fulvous or tawny ; 

 over each eye a narrow Hue of white ; a Hue of brownish black 

 commences at the base of the bill, surrounds the eye, passes 

 down the sides of the neck and chest, and nearly meets on the 

 breast ; behind the ear-coverts a narrow stripe of bufFy white, 

 separated from the line over the eye by a small patch of black ; 

 centre of the back dark brown, with a stripe of ashy brown 

 down the centre of each feather ; the remainder of the upper 

 surface and flanks ashy brown ; throat and abdomen white ; 

 wings and tail dark brown, the wing-coverts and primaries 

 margined with olive ; irides brown ; bill blackish brown ; 

 legs and feet greenish grey. 



The young has all the upper surface dark brown, streaked 

 with bufFy white, and is entirely destitute of the fulvous 

 covering of the forehead and the lunulate markings on the sides 

 of the chest ; the throat, moreover, is of a dull wax-yellow, the 

 chest mottled dark brown and buflpy white, and the primaries 

 edged with a dull wax-yellow. 



Sp. 302. GLYCIPHILA ALBIFRONS, Gould. 



White-fronted Honey-eater. 



Glyciphila albifrons, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc, part viii. p. 160. 



"II 

 Gool-be-gool-burn, Aborigines of the mountain districts of Western 



Australia. 



White-throated Honey-eater, of the Colonists. 



Glyciphila albifrons, Gould, Birds of Australia, foL, vol. iv. pi. 29. 



I first observed this fine species of GhjcipMla in the great 

 Murray scrub of South Australia, where I succeeded in 

 killing several specimens of both sexes ; it is an inhabitant of 

 the York and other inland districts of Western Australia, and 

 it is also found in the interior of Victoria and New South 

 Wales. 



In its disposition the present bird is remarkably shy, a trait 



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