380 THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA 



The Pied Honey-eater. 



Certhionyx variegatiis (leucomelas) . 



North-west and Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria and 

 New South Wales. 



Male: Only colours black and white, the white parts being the 

 medium and lesser wing-coverts, and a great part of the outer and inner 

 webs of the secondaries, the whole producing a very conspicuous white 

 band on the folded wing, the rump, upper tail-coverts, the whole of the 

 central pair and the terminal quarter of the other pairs of the tail 

 feathers, and finally the under parts of the body. Bill bluish-grey; feet 

 greenish-grey; iris reddish-brown. A small fleshy appendage beneath the 

 eye ashy-grey. Culmen .75, wing 3.4, tail 2.5, tarsus .8. 



Female: Light -brown above; few of the secondaries and of the 

 greater wing-coverts broadly edged with white; under surface of wings, 

 fore-neck and throat buffy; feathers of chest, breast and flanks with a 

 brown subterminal spot, rest of under parts white. A little smaller than 

 the Male. 



The Western Pied Honey-eater. 



C. occidentalis. 



North-west Australia (Carnarvon). 



Differs from the male of C. variegatus in having the white on the 

 inner secondaries confined to the outer web; in the latter species the 

 white extends over the basal part of the inner web, also on two of the 

 secondary feathers. Length 7 inches, wing 3.4, tail 2.75. 



Genus Meliphaga. 

 Bill equal to rest of head, broad at base, curved, culmen with 

 a prominent ridge. Tail much rounded, five-sixths length of 

 wing. Pattern of colour very bright yellow and black, much 

 spotted and barred ; inner web of remiges grey, without paler or 

 fulvous edges. Near to Ptilotis. The one species is confined to 

 Australia. 



The Warty-faced Honey-eater. 



Meliphaga phrygia. 



South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland. 



Head and neck black, except the ocular region and the cheeks, 

 which are bare of feathers and covered with wart-like excrescences; 

 mantle, back and upper wing-coverts black, each feather broadly edged 

 with whitish-yellow; wings and tail black, with large edges or tips of 

 pale yellow; the three or four outer tail feathers with the terminal half 

 yellow. A few feathers on sides of upper chest longer than the others, 

 fluffy and yellow; feathers of breast and flanks black with subterminal 



