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43 —COACH-WHIP HONEY-EATER. 



Muscicapa crepitans, Ind. Orn. Sup. li. 

 Coach-whip Flycatcher, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 222. 



SIZE of a Thrush. Bill stout, black ; iridesblue; general colour 

 of the plumage slaty black ; chin and throat crossed with dusky 

 white lines ; the feathers of the crown long, and capable of being 

 erected as a crest; tail slightly cuneiform, the ends of the outer 

 feathers pale, nearly white ; legs slender, black. 



Inhabits New South Wales, called by the natives Djou ; has a 

 long, single note, not unlike the crack of a coachman's whip, hence 

 called the Coach-whip Bird ; is a lively species, and menacing in 

 its manners, and when the crest is erected, appears a formidable 

 enemy, which it takes the advantage of, in contending with other 

 birds, especially Parroquets, about the right of extracting honey from 

 flowers. I am unable to say of what form the tongue is, as I have 

 only seen the drawings of the bird, but I suspect it from this circum- 

 stance to belong to the Honey-Eater Genus. 



A. — Length eight inches. Plumage in general black ; from the 

 breast all beneath white ; over the eye a white streak ; across the 

 throat streaked with white ; tail cuneiform, four inches long ; quills 

 reach to near the middle of it. 



Inhabits New-Holland. — In the collection of Mr. H. Brogden. 

 One, in the Museum of the Linnsean Society, has a white patch in the 

 direction of the lower mandible ; and the legs are pale, not black. 



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