INSESSORES. 579 



I did not succeed in finding the nest, but the fact of my 

 having shot very young individuals affords indubitable evi- 

 dence that the bird breeds in the localities above-mentioned. 



The sexes are alike in plumage. 



Naked space behind the eye, forehead, upper part of the 

 throat, and the tips of several feathers on each side of the 

 neck citron-yellow ; rump and upper tail-coverts white ; back 

 of the neck and back grey, each feather obscurely barred with 

 white near the tip ; lores and ear-coverts black, the latter 

 crossed with silvery grey ; throat, cheeks, and all the under 

 surface white, the feathers of the chest crossed by an arrow- 

 shaped mark of brown ; wings and tail dark brown, the outer 

 webs of the primaries, many of the secondaries, and the basal 

 portion of the tail-feathers dull citron-yellow; all the tail- 

 feathers tipped with white ; bill bright orange-yellow ; feet 

 yellow ; irides leaden-brown. 



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



Genus MANORHINA, Vieillot. 



The single species of this form is a native of the south- 

 eastern parts of Australia; it is very nearly allied to the Myzan- 

 th(B, but differs from them in some minor points. 



Sp. 357. MANORHINA MELANOPHRYS. 



Bell-bird, 



Tardus melanophrys, Lath. Ind. Orn., Supp. p. xlii. 



Manorhina viindis, Vieill. Gal. des Ois., pi. 149. 



Myzantha flavirostris, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 319. 



Manorina viridis, Bonn, et Vieill. Ency. Meth. Orn,, part ii. p. 692. 



Dilbong and Dilring, Aborigines of New South Wales (Latham). 



Bell-bird of the Colonists. 



Myzantha melanophrys, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., vol. iv. 

 pi. 80. 



The present bird evinces a decided preference for, and 



2p 2 



