INSESSORES. 



517 



two in number, ten lines long by seven lines broad, of a pale 

 salmon colour, with a zone of a deeper tint at the larger end, 

 and the whole freckled with minute spots of a still darker hue. 

 The stomach is diminutive and slightly muscular, the food 

 consisting of insects and honey. 



The sexes appear to present no difference in the colour of 

 their plumage ; but the female, as is the case with the other 

 members of the genus, is considerably smaller than her mate. 



Crown of the head and all the upper surface bright olive- 

 yellow, approaching to grey on the back ; lores black ; ear- 

 coverts, throat, and under surface pale yellowish grey, faintly 

 striated with a darker tint ; behind the ear two tufts, the 

 upper of which is narrow and black ; the lower, which is 

 more spread over the sides of the neck, of a beatiful yellow ; 

 primaries and tail-feathers brown, margined with bright olive- 

 yellow ; irides very dark reddish brown ; bill black ; legs and 

 feet apple-green. 



Total length 4 J inches ; bill J ; wing 3 J ; tail 2f ; tarsi f . 



Sp. 316. PTILOTIS FLAVESCENS, Gould. 



Yellow-tinted Honey-eater. 



Ptilotis flavescens, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc, part vii. p. 142. 

 Meliphaga flavescens, Gray, Gen. of Birds, vol. i. p. 122, Meliphaga, 

 sp. 16. 



Ptilotis flavescens, Gould, Birds of Australia, foL, vol. iv. pi. 41. 



The only example of this new species that I have seen is 

 from the north coast of Australia, where it was procured and 

 subsequently presented to me by my friend Benjamin Bynoe, 

 Esq., late of Her Majesty's Surveying Ship the ' Beagle.' It 

 differs from all the other members of its genus in the uniform 

 yellow colouring of its plumage, for which reason 1 have 

 assigned to it the specific appellation oi flavescens. 



1 regret to say that nothing whatever is at present known 

 of its habits or economy. 



