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eye and on the sides of the neck black, above which on the 

 side of the neck another Une of whitish mingled with dusky ; 

 hairs on the cheeks white ; below the lower mandible a line 

 of feathers, which are white crossed by black lines ; throat 

 and fore part of the chest pale rufous ; under surface dirty 

 white, each feather striated with dusky brown ; tail blackish 

 brown, tipped with white ; bare part of the face and base of 

 the bill soft, pulpy, and of a pinky flesh-colour ; irides bluish 

 lead-colour; feet olive. 



Total length 9f inches ; bill l^ ; wing 4^ ; tail 4-J^ ; tarsi 1. 



Genus ANTHOCHiERA, Viffors and Horsfield. 



The two species of this peculiarly Australian genus are 

 exclusively confined to the southern .or extra-tropical parts of 

 the country ; one to Tasmania, the other to the continent, 



Sp. 330. ANTHOCHJERA INAURIS. 



Wattled Honey-eater. 



Anthocheera carunculata, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. 



p. 321. 

 Creadion carunculatus, Vieill. Gal. des Ois., torn. i. pi. 94. 

 Wattle Bird of the Colonists of Tasmania. 



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Anthochaera inauris, Gould, Birds of Australia, foL, vol. iv. pi. 54. 



The vast primaeval forests of Eucalypti clothing the gi'eater 

 portion of Tasmania are the habitual resort of this bird ; from 

 these retreats however it frequently emerges, and visits the 

 flowering Eucalypti of the more open parts, where forty or 

 fifty individuals may be frequently seen on a single tree, even 

 in the vicinity of Hobart Town and the islands of South Arm 

 and Bruni. The neighbourhood of the Macquarrie Plains is 

 also a locality particularly favouable to it ; from this district 

 hundreds are annually sent to the markets of Ilobart Town 

 for the purposes of the table. It is highly prized as an article 



