COR Et BoP. BRS 
the -others are violet: on each fide of the breaft under the wing is a 
tuft of yellow feathers, as in fome others of this genus. 
» Inhabits the: A/chratta country in India, and is in the Britifb Mu- 
feum ; it feems allied to the Afiatic Creeper, Ind. Orn. N° 22. : 
T‘HIS is more than feven inches in length: the bill one inch long, 
curved half way from the point, and black: legs brown: 
the tongue longer than the bill, and fringed at the point: the plu- 
mage on the upper parts is mottled brown: the forehead, lore, and 
all the under parts are white; before the eye, between that and the 
bill, begins a black band, which paffes through the eye, growing 
broader, after which it narrows to a point, and ends on each fide of 
the breaft. | 
inhabits New South Wales: faid to be fond of honey, and alfo to 
feed on flies: ina fecond of thefe birds, the forehead differs in not 
being white, but the lore is black, paffing under and a little way 
beyond the eye. 
J ENGTH rather more than fix inches: bill one inch and a 
quarter lone, very flender, and moderately curved; tongue longer 
than the bill, and fringed at the end: the crown of the head is black, 
taking’ in the eyes on each fide, and paffing in a broad band quite to 
the breaft: the back, wing coverts, and rump are pale flaty grey: 
quills and tail black, the laft fomewhat cuneiform: the chin is very 
pale rufous, and from that to the breaft white; the rufous colour 
furrounded with a crefcent of black, with the horns pointing up- 
wards. || 
Inhabits New South Wales, and is a beautiful fpecies. 
PLace. 
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BLACK-EYED 
CR. 
DESCRIPTION. 
PLACE, 
22. 
SLENDER- 
BILLED 
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DEscrRirTion. 
Praex. 
