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29.— WHITE-JAWED HONEY-EATER. 



LENGTH seven inches and a half. Bill moderately curved, 

 black; head, neck, and breast dusky black; behind the lower jaw a 

 patch of white ; crown of the head deep ash-colour, streaked with 

 dusky; body above, wings, and tail olive-green ; outer edge of the 

 wing, and shoulder fringed with pale yellow ; quills dusky, edged 

 with greenish; inner margins of most of them pale flesh-colour; 

 belly pale, dusky, greenish white; tail long, dusky, edged with 

 green, all but the two middle feathers tipped with white. 



Inhabits New South Wales. 



30.— BARRED-TAILED HONEY-EATER. 



LENGTH seven inches. General colour of the plumage above 

 brown ; beneath white ; breast and belly pale buff, with dusky 

 markings ; vent white ; tail ash, with a broad black bar near the 

 end ; tip paler ash, but the two middle feathers are plain ; four or 

 five, at least, of the quills marked with a pale spot on the inner web. 



Inhabits New South Wales. — Mr. Lambert. 



31— MURINE HONEY-EATER. 



LENGTH five inches and a half. Bill slightly bent, black ; 

 tongue missile, divided into four threads at the ends; the head, to 

 below the eyes, dusky mouse-colour; middle of the feathers darkest; 

 behind each eye a white streak, tending to the hindhead ; chin, and 



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