166 HONEY-EATER. 



11.— GRACULINE HONEY-EATER. 



Gracula cyanotis, Ind. Orn. Sup. xxix. Shaw's Zool. vii. 474. 

 Meliphaga cyanops, Lewin's N. Holland Birds, pi. 4. 

 Blue-eared Grakle, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 130. 



LENGTH eleven inches and a half. Bill, forehead, crown, and 

 sides black; round the eye a bare space, of a bright blue colour; 

 chin, throat, and breast lead-colour; beneath the cheeks, sides of 

 the neck, and all from breast to vent white ; at the back of the head, 

 a white crescent; neck behind, shoulders, back, wings, and tail 

 yellowish green ; quills dark brown, with yellow margins, towards 

 the ends grey; legs blue black ; claws black, and hooked. 



Inhabits New-Holland. — In the collection of Gen. Davies. 



A.— Heoro-taire Gracule, Ois. dor. ii. 125. pi. 87. 

 Graculine Creeper, Shaiv's Zool. viii. 242. 



This differs principally in having the naked skin round the eye 

 yellow, instead of blue ; the tongue plumose, as in the rest of this 

 Genus; length about ten inches; bill yellow, with a black tip; the 

 legs greenish. 



Inhabits New-Holland, with the other, from which it probably 

 differs only in sex ; the gait is said to be leaping, and the general 

 action on the ground that of a Magpie ; it has a very sharp cry, 

 repeating it continually ; chaces bees, and other insects, on which, 

 as well as honey, extracted from flowers, it feeds. 



