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Upper surface, wings, and tail rich olive-brown, with nume- 

 rous small marks of greyish white on the apical portion of the 

 nuchal feathers ; the wing-coverts broadly, and the remainder 

 of the feathers narrowly edged with brownish buff; from the 

 gape beneath the eye a streak of white ; ear-coverts blackish 

 grey ; from the centre of the lower angle of the ear-coverts a 

 very narrow streak of silky yellow, which, proceeding back- 

 wards, joins the line of white from beneath the eye ; throat 

 brownish grey ; under surface sandy buff, the feathers of the 

 breast and the middle of the abdomen with lighter centres ; 

 bill olive-black; naked space beneath the eye yellow; legs 

 and feet slate-colour. 



Total length 7f inches ; bill 1 ; wing 4 ; tail 3 ; tarsi f . 



The young are destitute of the white marks on the nape, 

 and have the under surface more rufous and without the 

 lighter centres. 



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Genus STOMIOPERA, Reichenhach. 



Dr. Reichenbach considers the following species sufficiently 

 different from the true Ptilotes, to warrant its separation into 

 a distinct genus, and if the difference in its singular habits be 

 taken into consideration, the separation is justifiable. 



Sp. 322. STOMIOPERA UNICOLOR, Goidd. 



Uniform-coloured Honey-eater. 



Ptilotis unicolor, Gould in Proc. of ZooL Soc, part x, p. 136. 

 Meliphaga unicolor, Gray, Gen. of Birds, vol. i. p. 122, Meliphaga, 



sp. 8. 

 Stomiopera unicolor, Reich. Handb. der Spec. Orn., p. 109. 



Ptilotis unicolor, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., vol. iv. pi. 46. 



This bird, which differs from the true Ptilotes in some parts 

 of its structure, in the uniform colouring of its plumage, and 

 in its habits and manners, is one of the many species that 



