326 Mr. ViGORs's and Dr. Horsfield's Description of the 



Genus. Sericulus. Swains. 



1. CiiRYSocEPHALUs.* Scr. sericeo-atcr ; capite supra, nucha, 



fasciaque mediû alarum aureo-flavis. 

 Meliphaga clirysocephala. Lewin, Birds of New. Holl. pi. 6. 

 Sericulus chrysocephalus. Swains. Zool. Journ. vol. i. p. 478. 

 Loriot Prince-Régent. Tcmm. PI. Col. 320. 

 Golden-crowned Honey-Eater. Lath. G en. Hist. iv. p. 184. ?«o.38. 



The actual situation of this bird in the Order of Insessores 

 remains hitherto undetermined. Nothing has transpired re- 

 specting its habits or internal structure to make us either alter, 

 or retain with any confidence, the place originally assigned it 



by Mr. Lewin. 



Genus. Mimeta+. King. 



1. ViRiDis. Mim . olivaceo-viridis, suit us albida, nigro guttatim 

 striata; alis caudùque nigro-fuscis, illis albido-marginatis, hue 

 apice albo. 



* We insert the fallowing characters of the female of tliis species, which we have 

 taken from a fine specimen in the collection of Mr. Leadbeater. A figure has been 

 given of it by M. Duperrey, in the 20th plate of the " f'oi/age autour du Monde" 



Fœm. brunnea, dorso pectoreque albido-Junuhith ; vcrtke, gulic medio, torqucque nu- 

 chidi nigris ; ahdoiuine alhido, biuuiwo-Iuiiu/ato. 



Froiilis occipltiaque plum» pallidiori-brunneœ, in medio albido-lineata?. Alce brunnea», 

 pogoniis internis fuscis ad basin albidescentibus ; subtus fuscescentes, pogoniis 

 internis pallido-flavo inarginatis. Tectrices inferio'"es pallidè flavaî, fusco-brunneo 

 lunulatte. lîectrices brunnea?, subtus subfuscfp pallidè fiavescentes. Rostrum 

 pedesque nigri. Longitudo corporis, 10| ; alec a carpo ad remigem quartam, 5|; 

 rostri, 1 ^fj; ; C(iudœ,4\; tarsi, If. 

 A young male bird in the collection of Mr. Leadbeater, exhibits exactly the same 



plumage as the female, with the exception of some golden-coloured feathers appearing 



on the back part of the head, and the shafts of the secondary quill-feathers being of the 



same colour. 



t We have taken the liherty of altering the oithography of this word from Mimetes 



to Mimeta ; the former word having been already appropriated by Mr. Brown to a 



genus of plants in these Trinisactioiis (vol. x. p. 105). 



Gracula 



