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Sp. 332. ANELLOBIA MELLIVORA. 



Brush Wattle-Bird. 



Certhia mellivora, Lath. Ind. Orn., Supp. p. xxxvii. 

 Goruck Creeper, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. viii. p. 243. 

 Mellivorous Creeper, Lath. Gen. Syn., Supp. vol. ii. p. 166. 

 Merops chrysopterus, Lath. Ind. Orn., Supp. p. xxxiii. 

 Mellivorous Honey-eater, Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. iv. p. 161. 

 AnthochiEra mellivora, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 321. 

 Anellobia mellivora. Cab. Mus. Hein., Theil i. p. 120. 

 Melichcera mellivora, Reich. Hand, der Spec. Orn., p. 130. 

 Goo-gwar-ruck, Aborigines of the coast of New South Wales. 



Anthochfera mellivora, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., vol. iv. 

 pi. 56. 



This bird is a native of Tasmania, New South Wales, and 

 South Australia ; and in all these countries may be found in 

 such situations as are favourable to the growth of Lepto- 

 spermums. In the former country it is especially abundant 

 on the banks of the Tamar, and in the belts of Banksias that 

 stretch along the northern shores of that island. Among 

 the places in which it is most numerous on the continent, 

 are near the Port of Adelaide, in South Australia ; and 

 Illawarra, Newcastle, and Sydney, in New South Wales. 

 The Botanic Garden at the latter place, although in the midst 

 of a populous city, is visited by great numbers of this bird, 

 and I may mention that two of their nests with eggs, forming 

 part of my collection, were taken from the shrubs growing on 

 the borders of this place of public resort. It is but sparingly 

 dispersed in the interior of New South Wales and South 

 Australia : how far its range may extend to the westward of 

 Spencer's Gulf I have had no means of ascertaining : I have 

 never yet received it from Swan River or any part of the 

 western coast, its place being there supplied by an allied 

 species, the A. lunidata. 



The Brush AVattle-bird is a bold and sj)irited species. 



