10 CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF THE 



Nectarinia FLAVIGASTRA. 



Nectarinia flaviyastra, Gould, Proc. Z. S. 1843, p. 104 ; Zool. of 

 Sulph. pi. 24. 

 New Ireland. 



DiCEUM RUBRUM. 



Scarlet Creeper, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. p. 740. 



Cerfhia rubra, Gmel. S. N. i. p. 47!) ; Vieill. Ois. dor. t. 54. 



Dicmm atripes, Yieill. N. Diet. Hist. Nat. ix. p. 408. 



Dicceum scarlafinum, Schinz. 



Dicceum rubrum, G. R. Gray, Gen. of B. i. p. 100. 



Cardinal Honey-eater, 5, Lath. Hist, of B. iv. p. 199. 



One of the Islands in the South Seas. 



Dictum ^neum. 



Dicceum (Eneum, Ilomb. & Jacq.Voy.au Pole Sud,i. p. 97.t. 22.f.l. 



Solomon Islands (St. George). 



Meliphagid^. 



Myzomela cardinalis. B.M. 



Cardinal Creeper, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. p. 733. pi. 33. f. 2. 

 Cerfhia cardinalis, Forst. Descr. &c. p. 2G2 j G. Forst. Icon. ined. 

 63; Gmel. S. N. i. p. 472. 

 Nectarinia cardinalis, Steph. 



Melifreptus cardinalis, pt., Vieill. Encyc. Mcth. p. 604. 

 Meliphaga cardinalis, pt., Vig. & Horsf. 

 Phylidonyris sanyuinea, Less. 



Myzomela melanoyastra, Pr. B. Compt. Rend. 1854, p. 263. 

 • Kuyameta ' of the natives of Tanna (Forst.). 

 New Hebrides (Erromango, Aneiteum, Tanna). 



Jnv. Olive-brown, with some scarlet feathers on back, and slightly 

 tinged on the rump with scarlet ; greater wing-coverts, quills, and 

 tail slightly margined with yellow ; beneath fuscous-yellow, but yel- 

 lowish-white in middle of abdomen and on side of breast next the 

 shoulder ; front and throat scarlet, varied on the latter with yellow. 



? Myzomela pusilla. 



Certhia cardinalis, (Gmel.) Vieill. Ois. dor. t. 58. 



Hab. ? 



This bird is recorded by Vieillot as being only 3i inches in length, 

 and therefore much smaller than the preceding species. 



Myzomela nigriventris. B.M. 



Myzomela niyrivcntris, Pealc, U.S. Expl. Exped. p. 150. t. 12. 

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