Crown "f the bead is jet black, with an occipital band of white terminating at each eye J 

 ear-coverts and hack of the neck, black; all the upper surface greyish-olive, becoming brighter on the, 

 rump and external edges of the tail feathers; wings, brown, with a slight tinge of olive; throat, pure 

 white; under Burface, brownish-grey; hill, black"; feet! brownish horn-colour. 



'I'he young during the first autumn have the hill and feet yellow, and a circle of the same 

 colour round the eye : the hand at the occiput is also yellow instead of white. 



Total length of adult, 6| inches; hill, | inch: wing, •*>/, inches; tail, •'> inches; tarsi, jjj inch. 



MELITHREPTUS LUNULATUS (u. it amy). 



L I A' / '/.. I TED Hi )NE YE. I TER. 



WTTHEREVEB gum and apple trees flourish in New South Wales and South Australia, the 

 ** Lunulated Honey-eater will lie found actively engaged in procuring - its food of insects and 

 pollen from the smaller branches of the trees. 



The nest, generally made of the inner rind of the stringy-bark, lined with opossums' fur, 

 is suspended from the small leafy branches at the to}) of the tree. There, during- the months of 

 August and September, two or three eggs are laid, of a pale buff, dotted all over with distinct 

 markings of chestnut-red, with a few indistinct cloudy markings of bluish-grey. The length of the 

 eggs is nine lines, and the breadth six and a-half lines. 



The upper surface is greenish-olive : head and chin, black ; crescent-shaped mark at the 

 occiput, and ;ill the under surface, white ; wings and tail, brown, the apical half of the external 

 webs of the primaries edged with grey; feet, olive; irides, very dark brown; bill, blackish-brown. 



The female is smaller than the male, but there is no difference in plumage. 



Habitats: New South Wales and South Australia. 



