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neck black ; ear-coverts pale yellow, behind which is an obscure 

 spot of greyish white; throat and under surface pale yellowish grey 

 striated with light brown ; irides dark brown ; bill black ; legs and 

 feet greenish grey. The female like the male in colour, but smaller 

 in all her dimensions. 



Total length, 7^ inches; bill, 1; wing, 3|; tail, 3^; tarsi, 1. 



Hab. South and Western Australia. 



Ptilotis cratitius. Ptil. vertice cinereo, — loris, strigd superocu- 

 lari, et plumis auricularibus nigris, — infrU et pone has, penicillo 

 angusto, et flavo; a rictu per gulcR latera ducta appendice nudo, 

 corneo, ad marginem inferiorem libero, et belle e gilvo carulescente. 



Crown of the head grey ; all the upper surface olive-green ; wings 

 and tail brown, margined with greenish yellow; lores, a large space 

 surrounding the eye and" the ear-coverts black, below which is a 

 narrow line of bright yellow ; from the gape, down each side of the 

 throat for five-eighths of an inch, a naked fleshy appendage, free at 

 the lower end, of a beautiful lilac colour and very conspicuous in 

 the living bird ; anterior to this is a tuft of bright yellow feathers ; 

 throat and under surface olive-yellow ; irides and eyelash black ; 

 bill black ; feet blackish brown tinged with olive. 



The female is similar to the male, but smaller. 



Total length, 7 inches; bill, |; wing, 2^ ; tail, 3i; tarsi, |. 



Hab. Interior of South Australia and Kangaroo Island. 



Glyciphila albifrons. Glyc. facie albd ; gutture nigro, albo mi- 

 nute adsperso ; vertice nigro, plumis albo anguste marginatis. 



Forehead, lores and a narrow ring round the eye, and a narrow 

 line running from the angle of the lower mandible white ; crown of 

 the head black, each feather slightly margined with white; ear- 

 coverts silvery blackish gray, behind which an irregular line of white; 

 all the upper surface brown, irregularly margined with w'hite, pro- 

 ducing a mottled appearance; wings and tails brown, the primaries 

 margined externally with yellowish green ; chin and throat brown- 

 ish black, the former minutely speckled with white ; under surface 

 of the wing buff; chest and abdomen white, striped with blackish 

 brown on the flanks ; irides dark brown ; bill black ; feet blackish 

 brown. 



The female is like the male in plumage, but smaller in size. 



Total length, 5| inches; bill, |; wing, 3^; tail, 2f ; tarsi, ^. 



Hab. Western Australia. 



Meliphaga mystacalis. Mel. vertice et gutture nigris; strigd 



superoculari angustd, albd; jilmnis auricularibus densis, albis, 



et penicillum postice acutum efficientibus. 



Head, chin and throat black; over the eye a narrow line of white; 



ears covered by a conspicuous tuft of white feathers, which are 



closely set and terminate in a point towards the back; upper surface 



brownish l)lack, the feathers edged with white; under surface white, 



with a broad stripe of black down the centre of each feather; wings 



and tail blackish brown, conspicuously margined with bright yellow; 



irides brown; bill black; feet blackish brown. 



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