170 HONEY-EATER. 



16— CARUNCULATED HONEY-EATER. 



Cevthia carunculata, Ind. Orn. i. 295. Gm. Lin. i. 472. 



Le Foulebaio, Ois. dor. ii. 103. pi. 69. male. p. 105. female. 



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



Wattled Creeper, Gen. St/n. ii. 732. Id. Sup. p. 129. Shaw's Zool. viii. 233. 



LENGTH seven inches and three quarters. Bill one inch long, 

 bent a little at the tip, and dusky ; tongue extensile, divided for half 

 the length into four segments, like threads, or bristles ; at the base 

 of the under mandible a kind of membrane, or small yellowish 

 wattle, about one-sixth of an inch in diameter ; this is surrounded 

 with a patch of yellow feathers, extending beneath the eye; irides 

 cinereous ; plumage in general olive-green, inclining to brown, the 

 middle of the back the darkest ; belly verging to ash-colour ; chin 

 and throat rusty orange ; breast ferruginous ; tail even at the end ; 

 legs blue black. Some birds have no orange under the throat, and 

 all beneath olive-yellow ; edges of the quills and tail of the last 

 colour. 



The female is of the same size as the male ; general colour yellow 

 in different shades, paler near the caruncle, and deeper on the back ; 

 bill horn-colour. 



Inhabits the Isle of Tongo-taboo, or Amsterdam, in the South 

 Seas, as well as others of the Friendly Isles ; and known by the 

 name of Foulehaio. Captain Cook* describes it as a singing bird, 

 and the only one of that appellation found there, compensating for 

 the want of the notes of others, by the strength and melody of its 

 own ; which tills the woods at dawn, in the evening, and at the 

 breaking up of bad weather. 



* Cook's Last Voy. i. 334. 



