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pale ferruginous: a red caruncle on each fide of the chin, as in the 
former. 
The above inhabit New Holland, efpecially the fea fhores, and are 
pretty numerous: they chatter much, and are bold to a great degree, 
for when other birds, even larger and ftronger than themfelves, ap- 
proach, they drive them away. Their chief food is infects, but they 
likewife are very fond of fucking the honey from the different kinds 
of Bankfia. They are known to the natives by the name of Goo- 
gwar-neck, which word much refembles the kind of note they are 
inceflantly chattering, 
Merops corniculatus, Jud. Orn.i. p. 276, 21. 
Knob-fronted Bee-eater, Whites Fourn. pl. p. 190. 
SIZE ofa Mifeél Thrufh: length fourteen inches: bill one inch and 
a half long, rather bent downwards; colour pale brown, with a 
dufky tip; noftrils oval, placed in an hollow, and the feathers come 
forwards to near the middle of the bill to meet them: the tongue 
briftly at the end: on the forehead is a blunt fhort eminence, like 
the rudiment of an horn: the colour of the plumage on the head is 
whitifh, ftreaked with brown, and the feathers are fhort: fides round 
the eye brown: upper parts of the body brown, with olive brown 
margins: quills and tail darker than the reft; the firft quill only 
half the length of the fecond: the under parts of the body are pale: 
the chin, breaft, and belly dufky white: tail even at the end, and 
about fix inches long, the fhafts and tips of the feathers whitifh : 
the wings when clofed reach half way on the tail: legs brown; the 
fegments near the toes rough and fcaly ; outer and middle toe joined 
at the bafe; hind claw very long and ftout. 
Inhabits New Holland, and is a fingular fpecies. That figured in 
White's Journal is an exact reprefentation, This was firft brought 
into England by Sir Fofeph Banks, 
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