PLECTORHYNCHA LANCEOLATA. 



Lanceolate Honey-eater. 



Ceown, ear coverts, and back of the neck, whitish, with a longitudinal mark of black dowii the centre of each feather ; throat and under 

 surface, greyish white, the tip of each lanceolate feather being pure white ; back, wings, and tail, light brown ; bill, bluish horn color ; feet, 

 light blue ; irides, brown. The sexes are alike. 



Length, 9 inches ; wing, 4^ ; tail, 4i ; bill, 1 ; tarsus, 1. 



This species inhabits the western waters, plains, and myall forests of the south-eastern portions of Australia, and is generally 

 to be seen in pairs among the Acacias and Eucalypti, feeding on the pollen of these trees, and the insects frequenting the blossoms. The 

 note of this bird is a loud whistle, which is sometimes uttered on the wing. It suspends its purse-shaped nest at the extremity of a branch, 

 the same being built of grass, wool, and a substance resembling cotton. The eggs are two in number, flesh-white, sprinkled with reddish 

 buff, 1 inch long by 8 lines broad. 



XANTHOMYZA PHRYGIA. 



Warty-faced Honey-eater. 



Head, neck, upper part of the back, throat, and chest, black ; scapularies, black, with broad yellow margins ; wings, black, the primaries and 

 secondaries margined with yellow ; spurious wing, yellow ; the two central tail feathers, black ; the remainder, black, more or less tipped 

 with yellow — the latter color predominating in proportion to the distance from the centre ; under surface, black, with a well-defined arrow- 

 head-shaped mark near the end of each feather ; irides, reddish brown ; bill, black ; feet, blackish brown ; warts of the face, dirty yellowish 

 white. The sexes are alike, but the male is much larger than the female. The young have no warts on the face, that part being partially 

 clothed with feathers. 



Length, 8^ inches ; wing, 4f ; tail, 4 ; bill, | ; tarsus, -§-. 



This very handsome honey-eater is found in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia, its habitat in the 

 first two colonies being confined to the eastern watershed of the Grreat Eange which divides the eastern and western waters. It often 

 assembles in flocks of more than fifty, and, w^hen actively employed on a particular tree, presents a very beautiful sight, the grace and elegance 

 of its movements and attitudes never failing to excite the admiration of the beholder. But when it takes fiight with full expanded wing, the 

 contrast of colors is most pleasing and beautiful. The Banksias and numerous species of Eucalypti are the trees most frequented, on account 

 of the honey which they so abundantly furnish ; but its food is not entirely confined to the nectar of flowers, being occasionally diversified 

 by an admixture of small insects. It is a courageous bird, and will not allow other species upon the same tree, and generally succeeds in 

 mobbing off any intruder. It fttters a loud and peculiar whistle, and has a song which may be considered harmonious. The cup-shaped 

 nest, which is formed of grass and wool, is placed in the drooping branch of a gum tree. The eggs are two in number, deep buff", marked 

 with spots and blotches of chestnut and purple grey, especially at the broad end : length, 11 lines ; breadth, 8^ lines. 



