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and berries, is procured both on the ground and among the 

 branches. 



" The nest is built on an upright fork of the topmost 

 branches of the smaller gum-trees, and is formed of small 

 dried sticks lined with soft grasses and feathers. The eggs 

 are eleven and a half lines long by nine lines broad, of a rich 

 orange-bufF, obscurely spotted and blotched with a deeper tint, 

 particularly at the larger end." 



The sexes offer but little difference in colour, but the female 

 is somewhat smaller in all her admeasurements. 



Forehead yellowish olive ; lores, line beneath the eye, and 

 ear-coverts black; head and all the upper surface dull grey, with 

 an indistinct line of brown down the centre of each feather, 

 giving the whole a mottled appearance ; wings and tail brown, 

 margined at the base of the external webs with wax-yellow, 

 the tail terminating in white ; throat and under surface dull 

 grey, becoming lighter on the lower part of the abdomen 

 and under tail-coverts ; the feathers of the breast with a 

 crescent-shaped mark of light brown near the extremity, and 

 tipped with light grey ; irides dark brown ; bare skin round 

 the eye, bill, and bare patch on each side of the throat, bright 

 yellow; legs and feet dull reddish yellow ; claws dark brown. 



Total length 9^ inches ; bill 1 J ; wing 5 J ; tail 4f ; tarsi i^. 



.Sp. 355. MYZANTHA LUTEA, Gould. 



LuTEOUs Honey-eater. 



Myzantha lutea, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc, part vii. p. 144. 

 Manorhina lutea, Gray, Gen. of Birds, vol. i. p. 127. Mmiorhiaa, sp. 5. 



Myzantha lutea, Gould, Birds of Australia, foL, vol. iv. pi. 78. 



I consider this to be by far the finest species of the genus 

 yet discovered, exceeding as it does every other both in size 

 and in the brilliancy of its colouring. I am indebted to 

 Messrs. Bynoe and Dring for fine specimens of this beautiful 

 bird, which were obtained by those gentlemen ou the north- 



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