538 BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 



In size this bird nearly equals the Magpie {Pica caudata) 

 of the British Islands. 



Crown of the head and back of the neck striped with black 

 and grey, the centre of each feather being black, and its ex- 

 ternal edges grey ; back and shoulders dusky brown, the shaft 

 of each feather buffy white ; wings deep blackish brown, the 

 external margins of the primaries slightly, and the secondaries 

 broadly fringed with grey ; tips of all the primaries white ; 

 tail much graduated ; the upper tail-coverts and two middle 

 tail-feathers grey, the remainder blackish brown, and the 

 whole tipped with white ; chin and under tail-coverts white ; 

 throat, breast, and flanks grey, each feather having a central 

 mark of blackish brown, which is much enlarged on the lower 

 part of the breast ; centre of the abdomen rich yellow ; bill 

 black ; corner of the mouth yellow ; irides very dark brownish 

 black ; feet light flesh-colour ; claws black ; bare skin round 

 the ear, and the upper part of the long pendulous wattle 

 which hangs from below the ear white, gradually deepening 

 into rich orange at its extremity. 



Sp. 331. ANTHOCH^RA CARUNCULATA. 

 Wattled Honey-eater. 



Merops carunculatus, Lath. Ind. Orn., vol, i. p, 276. 

 Corvus paradoxus, Lath. Ind. Orn., Supp. p. 26. 



carunculatus, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. vii. p. 378. 



Pie a pendeloques, Daud. Orn., torn. ii. p. 246. pi. 16. 



Wattled Crow, Lath. Gen. Syn., Supp. vol. ii. p. 119. 



Wattled Bee-eater, Lath. lb., vol. ii. p. 150. 



Anthuchcera lewinii, Vig. and Horsf. Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 322, note. 



Djung-gung, Aborigines of Western Australia. 



Wattle Bird of the Colonists. 



Anthochaera carunculata, Gould, Birds of Australia, foL, vol. iv. 

 pi. 55. 



This long known species, the Merops carunculatus of Latham, 

 enjoys a wide range of habitat, extending as it does over 



