HONEY-EATER. 195 



53. -FLAPPING HONEY-EATER. 



LENGTH near eight inches. Bill one inch and a quarter long, 

 slender, black ; tongue bristly at the end, and very extensile ; crown 

 of the head black ; nape pale brown ; neck behind dark brown., 

 coming forwards on each side above the breast ; chin and throat 

 white ; across the latter a curved blackish spot ; beneath from the 

 breast pale dusky buff, clouded with darker ; tail even, the four 

 middle feathers dark brown, the others the same, halfway from the 

 base, from thence to the end white ; legs black ; the wings reach 

 beyond the base of the tail. 



Inhabits New South Wales ; feeds on flies and honey ; makes a 

 singular noise when flying, as if the tips of the wings were beaten 

 together, under the belly ; hovers over flowers like the Humming 

 Bird, and extracts the honey with its brushy tongue. This seems 

 much allied to the last. 



54 —YELLOW-EARED HONEY-EATER. 



Certhia chrysotis, Ind. Orn. Sup. xxxviii. 



Heoro-taire gris, Ois. dor. ii. 122. pi. 84. 



Spot-eared Creeper, Shaw's Zool. viii. 244. 



Yellow-eared Creeper, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 169. Lewin, pi. 14. 



LENGTH from five to six inches. Bill black, edged with grey ; 

 tongue divided into four parts at the end, each division ciliated; 

 head, and upper parts in general, pale dirty greyish brown, beneath 

 greyish white, with a tinge of yellow ; below the ear an oval spot of 

 fine yellow ; above this a smaller one of black, through the eye ; 

 quills and tail edged with yellow ; legs brown. 



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