10 CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF THE 



Nectarinia FLAVIGASTRA. 



Nectarinia Jlavigastra, Gould, Proc. Z. S. 1843, p. 104 ; Zool. of 

 Sulph. pi. 24. 

 New Ireland. 



DlCEUM RUBRTJM. 



Scarlet Creeper, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. p. 740. 



Certhia rubra, Gmel. S. N. i. p. 479 ; Vieill. Ois. dor. t. 54. 



Dicceum atripes, Vieill. N. Diet. Hist. Nat. ix. p. 408. 



Dicceum scarlatinum, Schinz. 



Dicceum rubrum, G. R. Gray, Gen. of B. i. p. 100. 



Cardinal Honey-eater, §, Lath. Hist, of B. iv. p. 199. 



One of the Islands in the South Seas. 



DlCEUM jENEUM. 



Dicceum ceneum, Homb. & Jacq.Voy.au Pole Sud,i. p. 97. t. 22. f. I. 

 Solomon Islands (St. George). 



MeLIPHAGIDjE. 



Myzomela cardinalis. B.M. 



Cardinal Creeper, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. p. 733. pi. 33. f. 2. 

 Certhia cardinalis, Forst. Descr. &c. p. 262 ; G. Forst. Icon. ined. 

 63 ; Gmel. S. N. i. p. 472. 

 Nectarinia cardinalis, Steph. 



Melitreptus cardinalis, pt., Vieill. Encyc. Meth. p. 604. 

 Meliphaga cardinalis, pt., Vig. & Horsf. 

 Phylidonyris sanguinea, Less. 



Myzomela melanogastra, Pr. B. Compt. Rend. 1854, p. 263. 

 ' Kuyameta ' of the natives of Tanna (Forst.'). 

 New Hebrides (Erromango, Aneiteum, Tanna). 



Juv. Olive-brown, with some scarlet feathers on back, and slightly 

 tinged on the rump with scarlet ; greater wing-coverts, quills, and 

 tail slightly margined with yellow ; beneath fuscous-yellow, but yel- 

 lowish-white in middle of abdomen and on side of breast next the 

 shoulder ; front and throat scarlet, varied on the latter with yellow. 



? Myzomela pusilla. 



Certhia cardinalis, (Gmel.) Vieill. Ois. dor. t. 58. 



Hab. ? 



This bird is recorded by Vieillot as being only 3^ inches in length, 

 and therefore much smaller than the preceding species. 



Myzomela nigriventris. B.M. 



Myzomela nigriventris, Peale, U.S. Expl. Exped. p. 150. t. 12. 

 f. 1. 



