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chest black ; occipital band and body beneath white ; 

 five inches. New Holland. 



Meliphaga Mystacalis, Temm. PI. col. t. 336. f. 2. 



Deep-gray ; head, nape, and top of the back, streaked, 

 black and white, beneath white ; sides splashed with 

 deep gray ; streak on side of neck black ; six inches. 

 Manilla. 



Meliphaga Maciilata, Temm. 

 PL Col. t. 29. f. 1. 



Back and lesser wing-coverts dark-olive ; eye in an 

 ashy spot with a yellow spot behind, and white streak 

 under; rest of the bird olive waved. 



Meliphaga Reticulata, Temm. PI. col. t. 29. f 2. T. 



Maxillaris, Lath. 

 Brown, beneath bluish-white; crown and maxillary 

 band white ; feet yellow. 



T. Leucotis, Lath. 

 Green, beneath yellow ; crown ash ; throat and chest 

 black ; ear-spot white ; bill and feet black. 



T. Lunulatus, Lath. 

 Brown, beneath white ; both lunulated with black. 



T. Melinus, Lath. 

 And perhaps most of his Polynesian thrushes belong to 

 this genus, a list of which is placed at the end of the 

 thrushes. 



Cuvier has placed the T. Cochin-Chinensis, the P. 

 Nigricollis of Vieil. in this place ; it forms the genus 

 Chloropsis of Jardine, with the thrushes. 

 Temminck places in this genus Certhia Sanguinea and 



