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DIRIGANG 
CR. 
DeEscRiPTION. 
PLACE. 
24 
CHIRPING 
CR 
DescRIPTION. 
PLAace. 
25. 
MELLIVOROUS 
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Descrip rion. 
PLACE. 
@& Rf EVE wR: 
N fize this fpecies fomewhat exceeds our Common Creeper: plu- 
mage above pale olive or greenifh brown; beneath white, inclining 
to dufky on the belly: on the forehead and crown are a few fhort, 
tranfverfe, black lines: under the eye a patch of yellow, and behind 
it another of a reddifh colour: at the bend of the wing a few pale 
fpots: bill and legs dufky. 
Inhabits New South Wales, where it is called a Woodpecker, from 
hence we may fuppofe it to frequent and run up and down trees in 
the manner of that bird. ‘The native name is Dirigang. 
IZE of the Nightingale: general colour pale ereen, inclining to 
, brown.on the back, and to pale yellow beneath: quills and tail 
dufky : thighs dufky, barred with white: bill fender, black: tongue 
briftly at the end: legs brown: irides blue. 
Inhabits New Holland; and has a chirping kind of note. 
SIZE of the Miféel Thruo: the bill moderately curved and black : 
tongue briftly at the tip: general colour of the plumage black, 
marked on mott of the feathers with flender crefcents of white, and with 
fhort ftreaks of the fame: the axillary coverts have pale edges, and the” 
margins of fome of the quills the fame: feveral of the greater wing co» 
verts are longitudinally marked with rufous: on the rump a few 
white markings: the ends of the tail very pale, nearly white. 
Inhabits New South Wales, and is called Goo-gwar-ruck; is anume= 
_rous fpecies, feldom feen but near the fea fhore, efpecially about 
where the natives refort; is a lively bird, conftantly imaction, in fuck- 
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