264 MELIPHAGID^. 



Length six inches : the top of the head, the nape, 

 and the back are ashy-olive : the wings and tail are 

 slightly tinged with greenish ; the edges of all the 

 feathers of these parts are greenish : the hinder border 

 of the auricles is surrounded with a circle of small 

 pale-yellow feathers, and the opening to the ear is 

 covered with small ashy feathers, whose shafts are 

 white : the throat and the abdomen are white : the 

 rest of the plumage of the under parts is ashy, with 

 a very small longitudinal white band on each feather : 

 the beak and legs are dusky. 



Sp. 37. Mel. tenuirostris. 



Certhia cncullata. S/i(nv,v. viii.;>. 199. — Slender-billed Houey- 

 eater. Lath. Gen. Hist. v. iv. j). 94. pi. Ixxii. 

 Sp. 38. Mel. xanthotis. 



Certhia xanthotis. Shatv, v. viu.p. 244. — Yellow-eared Creepei-. 

 Leiv. New Holt. Birds, pi. 14. 

 Sp. 39. Mel. chrysops. 



Sylvia chrysops. Steph. v.\. p. 61 0. 

 Sp. 40. Mel. auriconiis. Swain. Zool. Illust. v. i. pi. 43. 



Certhia auriculata. Shaw, v. viii. p. 236. — Muscicapa auri- 

 coniis. Steph. V. X. p. 354. 



Sp. 41. Mel. pipilans. 



Certhia pipilans. Shaw, v. viii. p. 261. 

 Sp. 42. Mel. cserulea. 



Certhia diluta. Shaw, v. viii. p. 244. 

 Sp. 43. Mel. guttata. 



Certhia guttata. Shaw, v. viii. p. 253. pi. 35. 



GENUS CCLXXII.— MELITHREPTUS, Vieillot. 



Rostrum longissimum, basi 

 rotundatum, valde incur- 

 vatum, acuminatum. 



Lingua ciliata. 



Beak very long, rounded at 

 the base, much incurved, 

 acvmtiinated. 



Tongue ciliated. 



