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25 — MUSTACHOE HONEY-EATER. 



Muscicapa mystacea, Ind. Orn. Sup. li. 

 Mustachoe Flycatcher, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 221. 



LENGTH eight or nine inches, Bill slender, black ; tongue 

 fringed at the tip ; general colour of the plumage pale green, but 

 the under parts from chin to vent greenish yellow, the last most 

 conspicuous on the chin and breast ; from the gape springs a black 

 band, which, growing broader, passes under the eye to the hind- 

 head, where it is fringed with yellow; legs black. 



Inhabits New South Wales ; is a pugnacious bird, attacking 

 others, especially the smaller Perroquets. 



A. — In this the crown is olive-green ; the rest of the upper 

 parts olive-brown; from the nostrils, through the eye, a black streak, 

 spreading in the middle, and finishing on the ears ; chin, and all 

 beneath the broad part of the black, fine yellow ; under parts from 

 the chin pale brownish yellow ; quills and tail dusky, the feathers 

 edged with olive green. 



Inhabits New-Holland. 



26— STREAKED HONEY-EATER. 



LENGTH seven inches. Bill three-quarters of an inch long, 

 black, a little bent, with a few bristles at the base ; head, neck, back, 

 wing coverts, and tail black ; over the eye, from the nostrils, a streak 

 of white, broader behind, and appearing fringed ; chin and throat 



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