194 HONEY-EATER. 



52- SLENDER-BILLED HONEY-EATER— Pl. lxxii. 



Certhia tenuirostris, Ind. Orn. Sup. xxxvi. 

 Le Cap-noir, Ois. dor. ii. 94. pl. 60. 

 Hooded Creeper, Shaiv's Zool. viii. 109. 

 Slender-billed Creeper, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 165. pl. 129. 



LENGTH about six inches. Bill one inch and a quarter long, very 

 slender, and moderately curved; tongue longer than the bill, and fringed 

 at the end ; crown of the head black, taking in the eyes on each side, 

 and passing in a broad band quite to the breast ; back, wing coverts, 

 and rump pale slaty grey; quills and tail black, the last somewhat 

 cuneiform ; the chin very pale rufous, and from that to the breast 

 white ; the rufous colour surrounded with a crescent of black, having 

 the horns pointing upwards ; under parts from the breast, rufous ; 

 legs pale. 



Inhabits New-Holland, and is a beautiful species. 



A.— Heoro-taire a coiffe noir, Ois. dor. ii. 128. fem ? 



SIZE of the former. The chin first rufous, then white to the 

 breast, but the black on the sides of the neck not half so broad as in 

 the other; above from the nape to the middle of the back fine brown ; 

 two middle tail feathers brown, the others black one-third from the 

 base, then white to the end, but those next to the two middle wholly 

 black. 



Inhabits New-Holland : said to be the female. — In the collection 

 of General Davies. 



