MELIPHAGIDiE. 



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Nares basales, magnse, in 

 fovea oblonga aiitice an- 

 gustione positse, membrana 

 tectag, parte infeviore rima 

 longitudinale apertse. 



Alw rotundata? : remiges : 

 primae abrupte, secunde 

 et tertias gradatim bre- 

 viores, reliquaesubaequales, 

 tertiae ad septimam externe 

 teiiuiter emarginatse. 



Cauda elongata, cuneata. 



Pedes elongati : digitus me- 

 dius longiusculus cum ex- 

 teriore basi coalitus: hallux 

 validiusculus medio antico 

 major validior. 



Nostrils basal, large, placed 

 in an oblong groove, 

 clodied by a membrane, 

 ,v/hich is longitudinally 

 cleft below. 



Wing-s rounded ; the first 

 quill abrupt, the second 

 and third gradually 

 shorter, the rest nearly 

 equal, the third to the 

 seventh externally slightly 

 emarginated. 



Tail elongated, wedged. 



Legs elongated: the middle 

 toe rather long and con- 

 nected at the base to the 

 exterior : the kind toe ra- 

 ther short and stronger 

 than the middle anterior 

 one. 



Sp. 1. Pr. familiaris. Linn. Trans. (Horsf.) v. xiii. p. 165. 

 Pr. olivnceo-fusca, abdom'inejlavo; gula, pectore,fasciisque duahus 



alarum albis ; cauddjiisca, subterminali perfused, ap'ice alba. 

 Olive-brown Prinia, with the abdomen yellow ; the throat, breast, 



and two bands on the wing, white; the tail brown, towards the 



tip brownish, the tip white. 

 Familiar Creeper. Lath. Gen. Hist. v. iv. p. 264. 



Inhabits Java. Length five inches : plumage is 

 greenish-olive-brown : belly yellow : chin, breast, and 

 two bands across the wings white : wings rounded : 

 tail long, cuneiform, with a band of brown at the 

 end, but the tips of the feathers white. Called 

 Pri7i7/a. 



