88 SOCIAL HABITATIONS., 
One species of it, which comes in the present section, 
is the BLur-FAcED Honry-EaTeR of New South Wales, 
called by the natives Batikin. It is a pretty bird, the 
plumage being marked boldly with black and white, and 
a patch of bare skin round the eyes being bright azure. 
NONEY-EATER IN NEST. 
This peculiarity has earned for the bird the specific title 
of cyanotis, or “ blue-eared.” 
Like all the Honey-eaters, it is a most lively and 
interesting bird, and to the careful observer affords an end- 
less fund of amusement. It is never still, but traverses the 
branches with astonishing celerity, skipping from one to 
another, probing every crevice with its needle-like tongue, 
