CATALOGUE OP BIRDS. 



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!298. Ptilotis chrysotis. (Latham.) Australia. 



299. Ptilotis leucotis. (Latham.) Australia. 



300. Ptilotis carunculata. (Gmelin.) Feejee and Samoan Islands. 



301. Prostliemadera novae zealandiae. (Gmelin.) New Zealand. 



302. Anthornis melanura. (Sparrman.) New Zealand. 



303. Manorhina garrula. (Latham.) Australia. 



304. Manorhina melanophrjs. (Latham.) Australia. 



305. Anthrochaera carunculata. (Latham.) Australia. 



306. Anthochaera mellivora. (Latham.) Australia. 



307. Tropidorhynchus corniculatus. (Latham.) Australia, 



308. Tropidorhynchus samoensis. (Homb. and Jacq.) Samoan Islands. 



Entomiza ? olivacea. Peale.* 



309. Acanthorynchus tenuirostris. (Latham.) Australia. 



310. Ptilorus paradiseus. Swainson. Australia. 



311. Paradisea papuana. Bechstein. (Obtained at Singapore.) 



312. Diphyllodes magnifica, (Scopoli.) (Obtained at Singapore.) 



313. Mohoa nobilis. (Merrem.) Sandwich Islands. 



314. Mohoa angustipluma. (Peale.) Sandwich Islands. 



315. Melithreptus lunulatus. (Shaw.) Australia. 



316. Promerops cafer. (Linnaeus.) Cape of Good Hope. 



317. Irrisor erythrorhynchus. (Latham.) Cape of Good Hope. 



318. Arachnothera chrysogenys. (Temminck.) (Obtained at Malacca.) 



319. Arachnothera longirostris. Jerdon. (Obtained at Malacca.) 



320. Myzomela sanguinolenta. (Latham.) Australia. 



321. Myzomela jugularis. Peale. Feejee Islands. 



322. Myzomela nigriventris. Peale. Samoan Islands. 



323. Drepanis coccinea. (Gmelin.) Sandwich Islands. 



324. Drepanis sanguinea. (Gmelin.) Sandwich Islands. 



325. Nectarinia famosa. (Linnaeus.) Cape of Good Hope. 



326. Nectarinia violaeea. (Linnaeus.) Gape of Good Hope. 



327. Cinnyris chalybea. (Linnaeus.) Cape of Good Hope. 



328. Cinnyris amethystina. (Shaw.) Cape of Good Hope, 



329. Diceum hirundinaceum. (Latham.) Australia. 



330. Polytmus serrirostris. (Vieillot.) Brazil. 



331. Polytmus albicollis. (Vieillot.) Brazil. 



* " Body, above and beneath, olive-colored, running into a dusky black on the head and breast ; a 

 yellowish-olive line runs from the base of the bill through the auriculars ; wings dusky brown, the 

 outer webs of the feathers yellowisli, fourth, fifth, and sixth quills nearly equal, and double the length 

 of the first, shafts black above, dusky beneath ; tail rounded, consisting of twelve reddish-brown * 

 feathers, their outer webs yellowish, shafts white beneath, brown above ; bill slightly curved, the edges 

 very sharp, in some specimens the upper mandible is toothed, whilst in others it appears to be worn 

 smooth ; tongue divided into a corneous brush at the extremity ; inside of the bill yellow, outside black ; 

 legs black ; soles yellow ; irides pale lead-color. 



"Total length, thirteen and one.half inches ; extent of wings, eighteen and one-eighth inches; wings, 

 from the carpal joint, six and four-tenlhs inches; tail, five and one-half inches; outside feathers, four 

 and three-fourths inches ; tarsi, one and seven-tenths inches; middle toe, including the claw, one and 

 four-tenths inches ; claw, one-half of an inch ; hind toe, one and one-tenth inches ; claw, six -tenths of 

 an inch ; bill, one and one-half inches ; to the corners of the mouth, one and fifteen-twentieths inches." 

 Peale, Zool. U. S. Exp Exp. Birds, p. 145. 



