178 HONEY-EATER. 



dashed with short streaks of white ; all from the breast plain white, 

 but the thighs mottled with dusky ash ; second quills cinereous brown, 

 prime ones chocolate brown ; tail cuneiform, three inches long; legs 

 stout, dusky. 



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



27— PACIFIC HONEY-EATER. 



LENGTH seven inches. Bill black ; plumage in general dusky, 

 with a greenish hue; beneath cinereous, mottled and streaked with 

 dusky white ; quills and tail dusky, the latter even at the end, the 

 feathers fringed with yellow on the outer webs, and the two exterior 

 have a white spot at the tip of the inner, but the outer web is white 

 for one-fourth from the tip ; quills fringed also with yellow ; legs 

 brown. 



Inhabits New South Wales.— M. de Fichtel. 



28— BUFF-WINGED HONEY-EATER. 



LENGTH seven inches. Bill moderately bent, and dusky ; 

 plumage above brownish ash, fore part of the neck pale ; chin nearly 

 white; breast appearing to be marked with a few short black lines, 

 arising from each feather being pale down the middle, and black on 

 the sides ; under tail coverts barred with black ; under wing coverts 

 pale buff; across the wing, when spread, a bar of the same colour ; 

 tail even, brown, tipped with paler brown ; the wings reach to the 

 end of it ; legs stout, black, toes rather long. 



Inhabits New-Holland. 



