AN AUSTRALIAN BIRD BOOM. 1?5 



2 371 Brush Wattle-Bird, Mocking-Bird, Mocker, Cookay- 



2 cock, Anellobia chrysoptera {mellivora) , S.Q., N.S.W., 



V., S.A., T. Stat. c. timber 12 



Brown, lined white; quills lined, tipped white; tail tipped 

 white; throat whitish; no wattle; f., smaller. Showy, 

 pugnacious, many curious notes. 

 1 372*Spiny-cheeked Honey-eater, Acanthagenys ruflgularis, 



1 A. Nom. c. timber, scrub 10 

 Upper dusky-brown ; white spiny feathers, below eye to ear; 



throat, chest rufous; abdomen whitish, streaked dusky- 

 brown; tail tipped white; f., sim. Insects, honey. 

 Many peculiar loud notes, a plaintive trill. 



3 373*Blue-faced Honey-eater, Banana-Bird, Blue-eye, Ento- 



3 myzon cyanotis, E.A., S.A. Stat. c. timber 12 



Attractive, beautiful; upper golden olive-green; head, 



hind-neck black; throat dusky; line on hind-neck, side 



throat, under white; about eye blue; f., sim. Insects, 



honey. Loud monotonous call. 



3 374*Friar-Bird, Monk, Leatherhead, Four-o '-clock, Pim- 



8 lico, Poor Soldier, Tropidorhynchus corniculatus, 



E.A., S.A. Insects. Nom. c. open forest, orchard 13.2 

 Head naked, ink-black; knob on bill; brown; tail tipped 

 white; silver-white lanceolate feathers on throat; f., 

 sim. Noisy, "Tobacco-box," "four-o'-clock." Fruit. 



2 375*Yellow-throated Friar-Bird, Little Leatherhead, Phi- 

 12 lemon citreigularis, N. Ter., E.A., S.A., N.W.A. 



Nom. r. timber 10 

 Upper brown; under pale brown; throat yellow (young), 

 white (adult); the colored plate shows a young bird; 

 the adult loses yellow on throat, black on face, grayish 

 marks on back, and becomes "one of the plainest of 

 birds"; f., similar to adult male. Insects, berries, 

 honey. "Five-o '-clock." 

 F. 145. Mniotiltidae, American Warblers, 231 sp. — 2(0) P., 



80(12)Nc, 219(151)N1. 

 F. 146. Drepanididae, Sandwich Island Honeyeaters, 40 sp. A. 



seen. Kendall has immortalized this bird in his beautiful poem, 

 "Bell-Birds." 



The Wattle-Bird is known to all. It is a pugnacious bird, and 

 has a rough, disagreeable note. It has a small wattle of naked 

 red flesh hanging at the side of the neck, hence the name. The 

 bold, pugnacious Brush Wattle-Bird is not so well known, though 

 its notes are even more remarkable. Both birds to-day are com- 

 mon in the Melbourne Botanic Gardens on the flowering plants in 

 the "Australian" section. 



The Spiny-cheeked Honey-eater is said to be a rare bird, but 

 there is probably not a park about Melbourne but has some of 

 these at present, as well as all through the winter. It is some- 

 what similar in build and habits to the Wattle-Birds, but is an 

 elegant and attractive bird, with many peculiar notes. 



