172 HONEY-EATER. 



mixed with white; wings pale brown ; edges of the feathers fulvous, 

 forming a spot on the wing ; tail shorter than the body, rounded at 

 the end, outer margins of the feathers fulvous from the base to the 

 middle ; the two outer ones marked, within at the tips, with a white 

 spot ; breast and vent striped longitudinally with white ; legs black. 

 Inhabits Van Diemen's Land. — From the papers of Mr. Anderson. 

 This is also called Balgonera. 



18. —WHITE-BROWED HONEY-EATER. 



LENGTH eight or nine inches. Bill dusky; forehead to the 

 middle of the crown dusky black ; irides dusky red ; tongue missile; 

 plumage above ash-colour; over the eye a black streak, and above 

 that a white one, both reaching much behind the eye ; under parts 

 from the chin white ; on each side of the breast a transverse bar of 

 black, not quite meeting together in the front, and behind that, be- 

 fore the wings, a narrow one of white, passing further behind ; quills 

 and tail black, marked with yellow, as in the New-Holland species ; 

 two of the outer tail feathers with dusky white tips ; legs reddish 

 brown . 



Inhabits New South Wales, and said to be very numerous there. 



19.— MOCKING HONEY-EATER. 



Certhia Sannio, Ind. Orn. i. 296. Gm. Lin. i. 471. 



Le Negho-barre, Ois. dor. ii. 98. pi. 64. 



Mocking Creeper, Gen. Syn.'n. 735. Slime's Zool. viii. 237. 



LENGTH seven inches and three quarters. Bill longish, bent, 

 slender, dusky ; nostrils covered with a membrane ; tongue sharp, 



