316 il/r. ViGOPs's cr?/rf Dr. Horsfield's Description of the 



Kemiges fuscœ, subtus pallidiores, basi interne albescentes. Tec- 

 trices inferiores fulvescenti-albidse. Longitudo corporis, 4^ ; 

 alœ a carpo ad remigeni quartam,2i^; coudce,2^; rostri,^; 

 tarsi, f. 



This bird is said to be common by Mr. Caley, and to be called 

 Cungleer by the natives. 



**** Cauda œquali, rostro breviori, graciliori*. 



11. Cardinalis. Mel. nigra; capite, dorso medio, uropygio, 

 gutturc, pectore, ahdominisque lateribus coccineis ; tectricum 

 marginibus, abdomine imo, crissoque albis. 



Certhia Cardinalis. Gmel. i. p. 472. no. 38. 



Certhia Australasiœ ? Leach, Zool. Misc. i. pi. 11. 



Le Soui-manga rouge et gris. Tieill. Ois. dor. ii. p. 58. pi. 36. 



Cardinal Honey-Sucker. Lath. Gen. Hist. iv. p. 199- no. 59. 

 pi. 71. Jig. 2. 



Mr. Caley informs us that he did not himself meet many birds 

 of this species, although he understood them to be plentiful : 

 his not meeting them probably arose, as he says, from their 

 being inhabitants of brushes. His researches were chiefly in 



* This section forms an interesting subdivision of the present group, as marking the 

 i)assage to the Ciiiiii/ndce. When the species become more known, and the whole 

 oroup becomes too numerous for remaining as a single genus, this type of form may be 

 generically characterized as follows, the Me/, cardinalis being the normal species. 



Genus. MyzomeLA. 

 Rostrum breve, gracile; culmine arcuato, ad basin subcultrato ; naribus longitudinali- 

 bus, linearibus, perangustis, membrana supra tectis, rostri tertiam partem longi- 

 tudine œquantibus. 

 Lingua, alee, pedesque iidem ferè ut in Meliphagis veris. 

 Cauda subbrevis, sequalis. 



Several new species of Honei/-Euters, lately brought home to this country from the 

 Sandwich Islands by Capt. Lord Byron, R.N., appear to accord with this grou]). 



the 



