322 Mr. ViGORs's and Dr. Hoksfield's Description of the 



Certhia mellivora. Loth. Ind. Orn. Supp, p. xxxvii. no. 8. 



Le Goruck ? rieill. Ois. dor. ii. p. 126. pi. 88. 



Mellivorous Honey-Eater. Lath. Gen. Hist. iv. p. Kjil. no. 5. 



Mr. Caley informs us that he called " this bird Cookaycock, 

 from its uttering a sound like that word, 'ihe natives call it 

 Coke'ran. It now and then may be seen in the scrubs about 

 Paramatta, always on trees ; but it is common in the neighbour- 

 hood of Sydney. It is what I should call an inhabitant of the 

 coast. I have met with it at Western Port." 



3. PnuYGiA.* Anth. nigra, siipernè Jlavo, infra alio variegata ; 



crisso alba; remigibus rectricibusque, harum duabiis mediis 



eaceptis, externe favis. 

 Meliphaga Phrygia. Lewin, Birds of Nete lloll. pi. 3. 

 Merops Phrygius. Lath. Lid. Orn. Supp. p. xxxiv. no. 1 . Shaw, 



New Roll. Birds, p. 13. pi. 4. 



Le Merle écaillé. Le Vaill. Ois. d'Afr. iii. pi. Il6. 



Black-and-yellow Honey-Eater. Lath. Gen. Hist. iv. p. l65. 



no. 10. 



Genus. 



* We take this opportunity of characterizing the following bird, which has been 

 generally considered the yoimg ot .-Jiil/i. cariiiicii/ata, but which appears to us to be 

 distinct. Besides some strong marks of difference in the colours of the two birds, 

 whicli appear too decided to indicate ihe difference merely of age, the shape of the 

 caruncle affords a strong ground for separation. In our bird this appendage to the 

 cheeks is short, ffat, compressed, and suboval. In Aiilh. caniuculala it is long, nar- 

 row and cylindric. The difleience between the two birds is much too great to allow 

 us to refer them to one species, without authentic proof of their identity. Our bird 

 resembles the description of Merops chrijsoptenis, Lath.; but that h'wA is said to have 

 no caruncle on the checks, and to have the markuigs on the wings of a golden-orange 

 colour. 



4. Lewinii. jJiitlt. supra J'usco-gi'isea alliido-striuta, capite yiigrcscoitc al/iiilo 



strialim lincato ; suOtiis pal/idiur, abdoininejlavesccnte; remigibus leetricibusquc 



fuse is 



