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region of the ears ; the rest of the upper parts, wings, and tail olive- 

 yellow ; breast, belly, thighs, and wing coverts yellow, with a rufous 

 tinge on the under tail coverts ; quills dusky on the inner webs ; tail 

 greatly cuneiform, the two middle feathers almost four inches long, 

 the outer one less than two ; in colour like the back, but somewhat 

 darker ; legs brown ; the quills reach to about one-third on the tail. 



A specimen of this is in the collection of Lord Stanley, without 

 a certainty of the place it came from ; but we have seen a similar 

 one from New-Holland. — It was also in the collection of Mr. Bullock. 



40— BLACK-EYED HONEY-EATER. 



Turdus melanops, hid. Orn. Sup. p. xl. 

 Philedon, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. lxxxvii. 

 Black-eyed Thrush, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 181. 



LENGTH eight inches. Bill stout, slightly curved, black ; 

 tongue longer than the bill, bristly at the end ; crown of the head 

 and sides yellow ; under parts of the body the same, but less bright ; 

 forehead mottled with dusky ; from the gape a black streak begins, 

 which increasing in breadth, entirely surrounds the eye, behind which 

 it becomes more narrow, passing half way down the neck on each 

 side; at the bottom, just within, a spot of yellow; the nape, hind part 

 of the neck, back, wings, and tail rusty brown ; the two last margined 

 with yellow ; tail moderately long, nearly even at the end, and the 

 wings reach not far beyond the base. 



A. — These birds vary, in having the whole of the cheeks, and 

 sides of the neck black, spreading quite to the nape behind; the 

 black also reaching much lower, but with the same patch of yellow- 

 within at the bottom ; and in these the forehead, crown, and all 

 beneath from the chin are yellow. 



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