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and berries, is procured both on the ground and among the 

 branches. 



" The nest is built on an upright fork of the topmost 

 branches of the smaller gum-trees, and is formed of small 

 dried sticks lined with soft grasses and feathers. The eggs 

 are eleven and a half lines long by nine lines broad, of a rich 

 orange-buff, obscurely spotted and blotched with a deeper tint, 

 particularly at the larger end." 



The sexes offer but little difference in colour, but the female 

 is somewhat smaller in all her admeasurements. 



Forehead yellowish olive ; lores, line beneath the eye, and 

 ear-coverts black; head and all the upper siu-face dull grey, with 

 an indistinct line of brown down the centre of each feather, 

 giving the whole a mottled appearance ; wings and tail brown, 

 margined at the base of the external webs with wax-yellow, 

 the tail terminating in white ; throat and under surface dull 

 grey, becoming lighter on the lower part of the abdomen 

 and under tail-coverts ; the feathers of the breast with a 

 crescent-shaped mark of light brown near the extremity, and 

 tipped with light grey ; irides dark brown ; bare skin round 

 the eye, bill, and bare patch on each side of the throat, bright 

 yellow; legs and feet dull reddish yellow ; claws dark brown. 



Total length 9^ inches ; bill 1 J ; wing 5^ ; tail 4f ; tarsi 1 J. 



Sp. 355. MYZANTHA LUTEA, Gould. 



LuTEOus Honey-eater. 



Myzantha lutea, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc, part vii. p. 144. 

 Manorhina luteuy Gray, Gen. of Birds, vol. i. p. 127. Mano7-hina, sp. 5. 



Myzantha lutea, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., vol. iv. pi. 78. 



I consider this to be by far the finest species of the genus 

 yet discovered, exceeding as it does every other both in size 

 and in the brilliancy of its colouring. I am indebted to 

 Messrs. Bynoe and Dring for fine specimens of this beautiful 

 bird, which were obtained by those gentlemen on the north- 



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