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ix., p. 229, and the latter species should, therefore, stand as 

 P. chrysotis (Lath.). 



Watling's note : " One half the natural size. This bird, 

 which is not very common in New South Wales, has one single 

 sweet whistling note. It is very shy and seldom seen, and, as 

 most small birds in this country, it has a feathered tongue for 

 the purpose of catching flies, etc., and sucking honey from the 

 flowers and plants on which most of them live." 

 No. 116. Missing. 

 No. 117. Yellow-eared Creeper. 



Latham has confused this figure with the foregoing. It 

 seems to have been drawn from a specimen of Ptiloiis fusca of 

 Gould. This figure may have been taken from a bird in worn 

 plumage. 



No. 118. Yellow-eared Creeper. 



Here again Latham has confounded a very difierent species, 

 and there can be no doubt, I think, that the bird figured is 

 not Ptiloiis chrysotis (M. 115), but is Sylvia clirysojps, Lath., Ind. 

 Orn., Suppl., p. liv. (Black-cheeked Warbler — not Honey-eater, 

 as Gadow quotes it — of Latham, Gen. Syn., Suppl. ii., p. 248). 



Watling's note is : " Natural size. This bird has a pleasant 

 whistling note." 



No. 119. Yellow-eared Creeper. 



This is also identified by Latham with the foregoing pictures, 

 but it is evidently meant for a small figure of P. leioini ( = P. 

 chrysotis [Lath.]). 



Watling's note is : '" Half the natural size. It is a very 

 lively bird, sucks honey out of the gum-tree flowers, and catches 

 flies, insects, etc." 



No. 120. Red-rumped Creeper, Lath., Gen. Syn., Suppl. ii., 

 p. 169. 

 Certhia erythropygia, Lath., Ind. Orn., Suppl., p. xxxviii. 

 Myzomela sanguinolenta (Lath.), Gadow, Cat. B., ix., p.l31.* 

 This figure represents a young bird, as the scarlet plumage 

 is very slightly indicated, and is evidently the same as the 

 Sanguineous Creeper, 



Watling gives the figure as of the " natural size," and says 

 that it is a " rare bird." 



No. 121. Black-eyed Thrush, Lath., Gen. Syn., Suppl. ii., p. 181. 

 Turdus melanops, Lath., Ind. Orn., Suppl., p. xl. 

 Ptilotis auricomis (Lath.), Gadow, Cat. B., ix., p. 242. 

 * Cf. figs. 107-109. 



