578 BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 



west coast of Australia, in which part of the country it sup- 

 pHes the place of the Myzantha garrula of New South Wales. 

 The law of representation is rarely carried out in a more beau- 

 tiful manner, than in the members of the present genus ; the 

 Myzantha garrula being, so far as is yet known, confined to 

 the south-eastern portion of the country, the M. lutea to the 

 neighbourhood of the north coast, the Myzantha obscura to 

 Swan River and the M.flavigula to the north-eastern portion 

 of the country. 



Naked space behind the eye, forehead, and the tips of 

 several feathers on the sides of the neck, fine citron-yellow ; 

 lores blackish brown with silvery reflexions ; upper surface 

 grey, the feathers of the back of the neck and back crossed 

 near the tip with white ; rump, upper tail-coverts, and under 

 surface white ; throat and chest tinged with grey, each feather 

 crossed by an arrow-shaped mark of brown ; wings and tail 

 brown, the external margins of the feathers dull citron-yellow ; 

 tail tipped with white ; bill fine citron-yellow ; feet yellowish 

 brown. 



Total length lOf inches ; wing 5| ; tail 5 J ; tarsi 1:^. 



Sp. 356. MYZANTHA FLAVIGULA, Gould. 



Yellow-thoated Miner. 



Myzantha flavigula, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc, part vii. p. 143. 

 Manorhina flavigula, Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. i. p. 127,. 

 Manorhina, sp. 4. 



Myzantha flavigula, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., vol. iv. pi. 79. 



This species is tolerably abundant in the belts of Eucalypti 

 bordering the river Namoi and all similar situations in the 

 interior of New South Wales. Although it has many of the 

 habits and actions of its near ally the Myzantha garrula, 

 it is much more shy in disposition, less noisy, and more 

 disposed to frequent the tops of the trees ; and so exclusively 

 does it replace the common species in the districts alluded 

 to that the latter does not occur therein. 



