HONEY-EATER. 189 



46.— BLACK-CHINNED HONEY-EATER. 



Turdus Cochinchinensis, Ind. Orn. i. 357. Gm. Lin. i. 825. 



Meliphaga Javensis, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 152. 



Le Verdin de la Cochinchine, Buf. iii. 409. PI. enl. 643. 3. Ois. Dor. pi. 77. 78. 



Black-chinned Thrush, Gen. Syn. iii. 79. Nat. Misc. pi. 557. 



SIZE of a Sparrow. Bill and legs dusky ; irides yellow ; general 

 colour of the plumage green, with an olive tinge on the head ; the 

 breast and belly pale, and inclining to blue towards the tail ; throat 

 and chin velvety black, bordered with a shade of yellow from the 

 base of the bill, growing broad on the breast; at the gape a lilac 

 streak; bend of the wing blue; tongue as long as the bill, ciliated 

 at the end. This is a male. 



A. — Turdus Malabaricus, Ind. Orn. i. 349. Gm. Lin. i. 837. 

 Le petit Merle de la Cote de Malabar, Son. Voy. Ind. ii. 192. 

 Yeliow-fronted Thrush, Gen. Syn. iii. 60. 



Length six inches. Bill eleven lines ; this has the general colour 

 of the plumage green, but no black on the throat, nor the lilac 

 streak, but instead of these, the chin and throat are pale blue, and 

 the place where the streak should be, is more blue ; forehead, crown, 

 and borders of the blue pale yellow ; shoulders blue, but paler; the 

 rest of the body less bright than in the former bird, and in both the 

 tail is very short, the wings nearly reaching to the end of it. This 

 is a female. 



Inhabits Cochin China, Malabar, &c. We have thought right 

 to place this with the Honey-Eater Genus, as the tongue is said to 

 be ciliated at the end, but do not learn whether it is extensile. It is 

 found in Java, where it is called Chuchach-iju. 



