158 HONEY-EATER. 



B.— Yellow-tufted Bee-Eater, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 149. B. 



Among many specimens I have remarked more than one, in 

 which the tail feathers were wholly black ; sides under the wings 

 rufous ; but whether such birds differed in age or sex was not known. 

 The general name of this species in the Sandwich Islands is Moho. 



3— WATTLED HONEY-EATER. 



Merops carunculatus, Ind. Orn. i. 276. 

 Corvus paradoxus, Ind. Orn. Sup. xxvi. 



carunculatus, Shaiv's Zool. vii. 378. 



Pie a Pemleloques, Daud. ii. 246. pi. 16. 

 Wattled Crow, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 119. 

 Philedon, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. lxxxvii. 

 New-Holland Bee-Eater, Phil. Bot. Bay. pi. p. 164. 



Wattled Bee-Eater, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 150. White's Journ. pi. p. 144. male. Id. 240. 

 pi. in. 145. female. Shaw's Zool. viii. 173. 



THIS is about fifteen inches in length, though some measure as 

 tar as nineteen, or even more. Bill black ; nostrils pervious, but 

 covered in part by a membrane ; tongue divided, for near half the 

 length, in three portions, like bristles ; crown dusky ; at the gape a 

 kind of silvery band ; behind the base of the under jaw an orange 

 coloured caruncle, or wattle, which in some birds is one inch and a 

 quarter long, hanging down as in the cock ; plumage on the upper 

 parts of the body brown, the shafts of the feathers whitish ; quills 

 and tail dusky, the first white at the tips, the latter very cuneiform, 

 the two middle feathers ten inches and half long, the outer six, all of 

 them more or less tipped with white ; legs brownish, outer and 

 middle toe connected at the base. It varies in having the middle of 

 the belly fine yellow ; the vent dashed with brown. 



