560 BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 



The sexes present no external marks of distinction, except 

 that the female is somewhat smaller than the male. 



The whole of the plumage is dull brown, with a vinous 

 tinge on the head ; under surface paler than the upper ; irides 

 bright red ; bill dark greenish black ; feet dark bluish grey ; 

 tarsi tinged with yellow. 



Total length 5 inches ; bill f ; wing 2 j ; tail 2 J ; tarsi f . 



Genus ENTOMYZA, Swainson. 



Two species of this well-defined genus are comprised in the 

 Australian fauna, one of which inhabits the south-eastern 

 parts of the country, or New South Wales ; the other, which 

 so far as we yet know is strictly confined to the north-eastern 

 coast, is very plentiful at Port Essington and in the neigh- 

 bouring districts. 



The form appears to be confined to Australia, for I have 

 never seen it from any other country. 



Sp. 346. ENTOMYZA CYANOTIS, Swains. 

 Blue-faced Honey-eater. 



Gracula cyanotis, Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp., p. xxix. 



Meliphaga cyanops, Lewin, Birds of New Holland, pi. 4. 



Turdus cyaneus, Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp., p. xlii. 



Merops cyanops, Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp., p. xxxiv., young. 



Tropidorhynchus cyanotis, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. 



p. 325. 

 Entomyza cyanotis. Swains. Class, of Birds, vol. ii. p. 328. 

 Batikin, Aborigines of the coast of New South Wales. 

 Blue-eye of the Colonists. 



Entomyza cyanotis, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., vol. iv. pi. 68. 



This attractive and beautiful Honey-eater, one of the finest 

 of the Meliphagidm, is strictly indigenous to New South 

 Wales, where it is abundant and very generally dispersed : I 

 observed it in nearly every part of the colony I visited, both 



