536 lilRUS Oif AUSTRALIA. 



eye and on the sides of the neck black, above wliich on the 

 side of the neck another hne of whitish mingled with dusky ; 

 hairs on the cheeks white ; below the lower mandible a line 

 of feathei's, which are white crossed by black lines ; throat 

 and fore part of the chest pale rufous ; under surface dirty 

 white, each feather striated with dusky brown ; tail blackish 

 brown, tipped with white ; bare part of the face and base of 

 the bill soft, pulpy, and of a pinky flesh-colour ; irides bluish 

 lead-colour ; feet olive. 



Total length 9f inches ; bill 1^ ; wing 4 J ; tail 4^ ; tarsi 1. 



Genus ANTHOCH^RA, Vigors and Horsfield. 



The two species of this peculiarly Australian genus are 

 exclusively confined to the southern or extra-tropical parts of 

 the country ; one to Tasmania, the other to the continent. 



Sp. 330. ANTHOCH^RA INAURIS. 



Wattled Honey-eater. 



Anthochara carunculata, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. 



p. 321. 

 Creadion carunculatus, Vieill. Gal. des Ois., torn. i. pi. 94. 

 Wattle Bird of the Colonists of Tasmania. 



Anthochaera inauris, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., vol. iv. pi. 54. 



The vast primaeval forests of Eucalypti clothing the greater 

 portion of Tasmania are the habitual resort of this bird ; from 

 these retreats however it frequently emerges, and visits the 

 flowering Eucalypti of the more open parts, where forty or 

 fifty individuals may be frequently seen on a single tree, even 

 in the vicinity of Hobart Town and the islands of South Arm 

 and Bruni. The neighbourhood of the Macquarrie Plains is 

 also a locality particularly favouable to it ; from this district 

 liundreds are annually sent to the markets of Hobart Town 

 lor the puri)oscs of the table. It is highly prized as an article 



