566 PASSERIFORMES CHAP. 
feathers, fluffy chests,rumps or sides,and lanceolate or bristly plumage 
on the neck, cheeks, or throat. Naked blue, green, scarlet, yellow, 
lilac, pink, or whitish areas on the head, and pendant rictal or facial 
wattles, are frequent, especially in Meliphaga, Ptilotis, Entomyza, 
Fic. 134.—Warty-faced Honey-Eater. Meliphaga phrygia. x4. (From Nature.) 
Philemon, Melidectes, Acanthochaera (Wattle-bird) and elirrho- 
phetes. The billand feet vary from black to red, yellow, blue, or green. 
The habits are fairly uniform, though certain species are com- 
paratively shy. Small flocks often gather together, the haunts 
being dense forests, or open wooded country whether inland or 
littoral; some forms prefer the tree-tops, others low bushes and 
shrubs. These active, pugnacious birds dart about m zigzag 
fashion, or take powerful undulating flights, the tail meanwhile 
being frequently thrown back or expanded; at times they hover, 
or fall from aloft with closed wings. Constantly seen hopping 
among the boughs, or chinbing and hanging to the twigs, in search 
