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A.— Length about eight inches. Bill black, bent ; base of the 

 under mandible pale ; plumage above, even with the eye, greenish 

 brown ; beneath white ; below the ear a pale rufous spot ; on the 

 wing coverts some pale, or whitish spots ; across the middle of the 

 wings a pale bar ; rump and tail ash-colour ; on the outer feathers 

 of the last a broad band of black ; legs dusky ; the wings reach to 

 the rump. 



Inhabits New South Wales, with the last, and like that, called 

 a Woodpecker ; native name, Der-gong ; from the nearness of name 

 and manners, as well as plumage, it most probably differs only 

 in sex. 



37— RUFOUS-VENTED HONEY-EATER. 



Sylvia rufiventris, Ind. Orn. Sup. lix. 

 Rufous-vented Warbler, Gen. Syn. Sup. iu 248. 



THIS somewhat resembles the Blue-throated Warbler, but is 

 larger by one-third. Bill and legs dusky; tongue bifid at the end, 

 and feathered on the sides ; the plumage above slaty grey, coming 

 forwards on each side of the neck, forming a bar, or crescent on the 

 breast, where it inclines to blue ; within and above this, the chin and 

 fore part of the neck are white ; breast, belly, thighs, and vent 

 rufous ; tail somewhat hollowed out at the end, the feathers fringed 

 at the tips, and of a hazel colour. 



Inhabits New South Wales, but is not common. 



