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the forest scrubs, where his specimens were procured. The 

 colonists call this bird Little Soldier. 



This division of the group of Meliphaga is that to which we 

 have alluded above as offering few external marks of distinction 

 from many of the Cinnyrida, besides the form of the nostrils. 



***** Cauda «equali, rostro graciliori, longiori. 



V2. Tenuirostris. Mel. supra cinerea; abdomine crissoque fer- 

 rugineis; regione inter humer ali, maculaque jugulari sub-lunu- 

 lari brunneis; capite, pectoris laterihus, recti'icibusque nigris; 

 harum duariim externarum apicibus,gutturc,juguloque albis. 



Certhia tenuirostris. Lath. Tnd. Orn. Supp. p. xxxvi. no. 5. 



Lie Cap-noir. Vieill. Ois. dor. ii. p. 94. pi. 60. 



Slender-billed Honey-Eater. Lath. Gen. Hist. iv. p. 194. Jio. 52. 

 pi. 72. 



Mr. Caley observes that he has seen this bird both at Sydney 

 and at Paramatta. 



13. FuLviFRONS. Mel. pallidè brunnescenti-fusca ; tania su- 

 perciliari, gutture, pectore, abdomine medio, crissoque albis ; 

 frontefulvo; striga per oculos, pectorisque lateribus brunneis. 



Var.? sincipite canescente. 



Striga brunnea per oculos extendit regionem paroticam inclu- 

 dens, et ad latera pectoris descendens, ubi fasciam lunula- 

 rem brunneam interruptam ferè efformat. Interscapulium 

 brunneo-fuscum, pallido-fusco parce striatum. Roniges 

 brunneo fuscœ externe albido graciliter marginatee, pogo- 

 niis internis ad basin fulvo-marginatis : subtus pallidè fusca?, 

 fulvo, ut supernè, notatoe. Tt'c/rices inferiores fulvœ. Rec- 

 trices brunneo-fuscne, subtus pallidè fuscœ. Rostrum, pedes- 

 que nigri. Longitudo corporis, 5\^ ; alœ a carpo ad remi- 

 gem quartam, 3 ; caudœ, 2f ; rostri, -^', tarsi, -V- 



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