184 HONEY-EATER. 



38— GOLDEN-CROWNED HONEY-EATER. 



Golden-crowned Honeysucker, Leivin's Birds, pi. 16. 



LENGTH nine inches. Bill from gape to tip one inch and a 

 quarter, moderately curved, and ending in a blunt point ; colour 

 buff yellow; nostrils in a long oval, near the base ; tongue ciliated 

 at the end ; crown and hind part of the neck, golden yellow, the 

 feathers short, appearing like velvet, or hair ; the second quills are 

 of the same gold-colour, as are the edges of the prime ones ; under 

 wing coverts yellow in the middle ; all the rest of the bird fine full 

 black, and the scapulars fall over each other, like silky fringe ; tail 

 two inches and a half long, rounded at the end ; legs near one inch 

 and a half long from the joint to the toes, and rather slender ; toes 

 and claws long, and black. 



Inhabits New-Holland : met with near the Coal River Settlements, 

 called there King Honeysucker, from its extracting the honey from 

 flowers, by means of its tongue ; found also on the banks of Paterson 

 River, among the thick bushes, but is far from common. 



In the Museum of the late General Davies was a fine specimen. 

 One is also in the Linnsean Society's Collection. 



39— HOARY-HEADED HONEY-EATER. 



LENGTH eight inches. Bill from gape to point, one inch and 

 a quarter, a trifle curved, the nostrils oval ; the head, neck, and as 

 far as the breast black, the feathers of the head and neck margined 

 with white, giving at a distance, a hoary appearance, most so on the 



