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spotted very distinctly with chestnut and reddish brown, in- 

 terspersed with obscure dashes of purpHsh grey. 



Head, chin, and throat black ; over the eye a narrow line 

 of white ; ears covered by a conspicuous tuft of white feathers, 

 which are closely set, and terminate in a point towards the 

 back ; upper surface brownish black, the feathers edged with 

 white ; under surface white, with a broad stripe of black down 

 the centre of each feather ; wings and tail blackish brown, 

 conspicuously margined with bright yellow ; irides brown ; 

 bill black ; feet blackish brown. 



Total length 6^ inches ; bill 1 ; wing 3 ; tail 2J. 



Genus LICHMERA, Cabanis. 



Of this form I consider there is only one species known, 

 the L. audralasiana, for I cannot agree with M. Cabanis in 

 associating with it the Glycepliala {Stiymatops) ocularis. 



Lichmera differs from Meiiornis in presenting a considerable 

 variation in the colouring of the sexes, in other respects it is 

 very similar. 



Sp. 300. LICHMERA AUSTRALASIANA. 



Tasmanian Honey-eater. 

 U Heorotaire noir et blanc, Vieill. Ois. Dor., t. ii. pi. 55. p. 89. 

 Certhia audralasiana, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. viii. p. 226. 



■ pyrrhoptera, Lath. Lid. Orn., Supp. p.xxxviii? 



Meliphaga ausiralasiana,Y'\g. and Hoisf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p.313. 

 Meliphaga inornata, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc, part v. 1837, p. 152. 

 Melithreptus melanoleucus, Vieill., 2^ edit, du Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., 



torn. xiv. p. 328. 

 Lichmera australasiana, Cab. Mus. Hein., Theil i. p. 118. 



Meliphaga australasiana, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., vol. iv. 

 pi. 27. 

 This little Honey-eater is abundantly dispersed over every 

 part of Tasmania, South Australia, and New South Wales. 



