416 CLASS AVES. 



Others have the cheek covered with feathers, and 

 the cheeks, neck, or under the wing is ornamented 

 with long feathers. 



Merops Cincinafus, Lath. 

 Merops Novcb Zealandico, Lath. Brown. Illust. t. 9. 

 Shaw. Zool. vii. t. 22. Vail. O. A. t. 92. Le Cra- 

 vate Frisee Anthochcerco, Vigors. Meliphaga, Teram. 

 Gal. Ois. t. 183. Sturnus CrispicolUs, Daud. 



Shining black-green ; sides of throat and wing-bands 

 white. 



Philedon Auriculaius, Desm. 

 Philemon Erythrotis, Vieil. 



Greenish-gray, beneath yellow, varied with ash ; crown 

 green-yellow ; orbits black ; ears yellow. New Hol- 

 land. 



Yellow-tufted Bee-eater, Lath. Merops Fasciculatus, 

 Lath. Merops Niger. Gml. Gracida Nobilis, Mer- 

 rem Boytr. 1. t. 11. Gracula Longirostris, /3. Gml. 

 Meliphaga, Temm. 



Shining black ; vent and axillary turf-yellow ; tail 

 largely cuneate ; outer tail-feather white, rest white-tipt. 

 Var. Dixon Voy. t. 19. 



The other species of the genus have none of these 

 peculiarities. 



Certhia Chrysotis, Lath. Philemon Chrysotis, Vieil. 

 Philedon Xanthotis, Desm. Vieil. O. Dor. ii, t. 84. 



Ash-brown, beneath white ; spot behind the ears ovate 

 golden, and another above black. New Holland. 



