THE WHITE-BEEASTED HONEY-EATER 377 



Suh-famili) Bleliphagince. 

 Genus Ghjcyphila. 

 Bill a little longer than, or as long as, rest of head, broad at 

 base. Nostrils opereulated, not covered by the feathers. Tail 

 sqnare or nearly so, a little longer than the wings. Front toes 

 short. Australia, New Caledonia. New Guinea and adjacent 

 islands. 



Key to the Species. 

 Breast and abdomen -white in all the four species. The 

 females are rather smaller, 

 tt. Throat white. Forehead fulvous or brown. 



Forehead fulvous. Chest dull blackish-brown, 



mottled with -white. G-. melanops. 



All upper parts brown. Chest white with faint 



brown ci-oss bars. G. modesta. 



b. Throat black. Forehead white. 



Chest without cross bars. G. albifrons. 



Chest white with dark brown cross bars. G. fasciata. 



The Tawny-crowned Honey-eater. 



Olycyphila melanops {fulvifrons). 



Southern half of Continent and Tasmania. 



Forehead rich reddish fulvous; a -whitish streak from the nostrils 

 over the eye; hind-neck and mantle dark-brown; each feather with a 

 paler streak down the centre; lower back and upper tail-coverts greyish- 

 brown; wings and tail blackish -brown; throat and cheeks white; feathers 

 of chest and sides of neck dull blaekish-brown edged -with whitish, giving 

 these parts a mottled appearance; centre of breast, abdomen and under 

 tail-coverts dull white; under wing-coverts reddish fulvous; bill blackish- 

 brown; feet greenish-grey; iris brown. 



The White-fronted Honey-eater. 



Glycyphila albifrons. 



Australia, except Queensland and Northern Territory. 



Forehead, lores, a narrow ring round the eye, and a narrow line from 

 the angle of the lower mandible, white; crown of the head black, rest 

 of upper surface brown; the rump and upper tail-coverts redder; chin, 

 throat and fore-neck brownish-black; breast and abdomen white, striped 

 with blackish-brown on the flanks; bill black; feet blackish-brown; iris 

 dark-brown. 



The White-breasted Honey-eater. 



Glycyphila fasciata. 



North-west Australia, Northern Territory to Queensland. 

 Crown of head and nape blackish -brown; rest of upper surface 

 generally brown; under surfaces mostly white; the feathers of the chest 



