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347. P. leilaTaleilsis, North, Lesser White-plumed Honey-eater. 



Records Aiist. Mus., vol. iii. , No. 5, p 106. 



Smaller than penicillata ; more brightly coloured head ; no black 

 line between ear coverts and white. Like flavescens, except ear 

 coverts. 



Hab. : 2. 



348. P. oruata, Gld., Yellow-plumed Honey-eater (Graceful Honey- 



eater). 



Post-auricular feathers forming elongated yellow tufts ; ear 

 coverts not black, but brownish ; crown not yellow ; under parts 

 dull whitish, with broad brownish shaft streaks ; mantle pale 

 brownish-grey. 



Hab. : 6, 9. 



349. P. pllllliula, Gld., Yellow-fronted Honey-eater (Plumed Honey- 



eater). 



Post-auricular feathers forming elongated yellow tufts ; ear coverts 

 not black, but yellowish-brown, with narrow black transverse stripe 

 bounding yellow ; under parts without shaft streaks and dingy 

 yellowish-white ; mantle pale olive-grey. 

 Hab. : 1, 6, 7, 9. 



350. P. flavescens, Gld., Yellow-tinted Honey-eater. 



Post-aiiricular feathers forming elongated yellow tufts ; ear coverts 

 yellowish-brown, with narrow black transverse stripe bounding 

 yellow ; mantle pale olive-grey ; under parts yellow, without shaft 

 streaks. 



Hab : 1, 8. 



350a. p. germana, Ramsay (sub-sp. of P. flavescens). 



Size smaller ; yellow stripe behind eye and black stripe beneath 

 ear coverts more developed. 

 Hab. : 2. 



351. P. flava, Gld., Yellow Honey-eater. 



No pronounced yellow ear patches ; all under parts rich yellow, 

 including under surface of wing ; upper parts rich greenish yellow. 

 Hab. : 1, 2. 



352. P, linicolor, Gld. (includes Stomiopera unicolor), White gaped 



Honey-eater. 



Auricular region without any yellow or white patches ; plumage 

 uniform dull bro^vnish-grey. 

 Hab.: 1, 2, 8. 



Genus — MELIORNIS. — Bill about as long as rest of head ; nostrils 

 operculated, not covered by feathers ; first primary comparatively 

 long ; tip of wing formed by third to sixth ; quills internally edged 

 with fulvous ; tail rounded. 



353. M. australasiana, Shaw, Crescent Honey-eater (Tasmanian 



Honey-eater). 



Male. — Crescent on whitish breast; narrow stripe above eye; quills 

 partly golden yellow ; mantle uniform ashy -grey. 



Female.— No white eyebrow and crescent. 

 Hab. : 3, 4, 5. 



354. M. nova^-lloUandice, Lath. , New Holland Honey-eater. 



General appearance black, white, and yellow ; feathers of mantle 

 blackish-brown, edged with whitish and brownish-grey ; feathers of 

 fore-neck hairy, black, edged and tipped with white. 

 Hab. : 3, 4, 5. 



355. M. loilgirostris, Gld. (sub-sp. of M. novffi-hollandiai). Long-billed 



Honey-eater. 



