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



Records Aust. 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. oriiata* 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. plumula, 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-auricular 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. llava, 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. imicolor, Gld. (includes Stomiopera unicolor), White-gaped 



Honey-eater. 



Auricular region without any yellow or white patches ; plumage 

 uniform dull brownish -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. HI. ailStralasiana, 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. liova'-liollaitdiir. 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. longirostris, Gld. (sub-sp. of M. nova^-hollandise), Long-billed 



Honey-eater. 



