182 HONEY-EATER. 



A. — Length nine inches. Bill nearly one long, dull yellow ; 

 tongue bristly ; crown of the head, taking in the eyes and nape, 

 black, descending in a broad irregular band of the same on each side 

 of the breast ; back, rump, and wing coverts olive-brown ; chin and 

 throat white ; breast and belly dull yellow ; vent white ; thighs 

 mottled with brown ; outer ridge of the bend of the wing blackish, 

 mottled with white ; quills dusky black, the second quills olive brown, 

 barred with black ; tail greenish brown above, dusky white beneath ; 

 legs the colour of the bill. 



Inhabits New South Wales ; met with there in May. This 

 probably ditfers only in sex from the last described. 



36— DIRIGANG HONEY-EATER. 



Certhia leucoptera, Ind. Orn. Sup. xxxvi. 

 Le Dirgand, Ois. Dor. ii 127. 



Dirigang Creeper, Gen.Syn.Siip.W. 166. Shaw's Zool. viii. 260. 



THIS is much larger than our Common Creeper. Bill three 

 quarters of an inch long, and dusky ; plumage above pale olive, or 

 greenish brown ; beneath white, inclining to dusky on the belly ; on 

 the forehead and crown a few short, transverse, black lines ; under 

 the eye a patch of yellow, and behind it another of a reddish colour ; 

 at the bend of the wing a few pale spots ; legs grey. The female 

 differs, in being less bright in the colour of the plumage. 



Inhabits New South Wales ; called there a Woodpecker,* from 

 its being frequently seen running up the trees in the manner of that 

 bird ; is most frequently found in the thick forests, chiefly on oak 

 trees, and is named by the natives, Dirigang. 



* No true Woodpecker has yet been met with in New-Holland. 



