YELLOW-PLUMED HONEYEATER 343 
YELLOW-PLUMED HONEYEATER 
Lichenostomus ornatus 
This is another Honeyeater of what may be called 
the " Greenie " type, but is distinguishable by its 
yellow ear-tufts and longitudinal breast-markings of 
brown. A specimen in the Geelong Museum has no 
accompanying data, and I have not observed the 
species here since the year 1888, when in the winter 
months they were present in small numbers in the 
eastern part of the town, feeding on the nectar 
obtained from the heavy-scented pittosporum flowers. 
I had one of them, which had been wounded, in an 
aviary ; it fed avidly at first on flowering boughs 
introduced into the cage, but after a few days appeared 
to pine and was released. 
WHITE-PLUMED HONEYEATER 
Ptilotula penicillata mellori 
Every schoolboy knows this bird as the " Greenie " ; 
it is to be distinguished from all other birds by the 
small tuft of silky-white feathers behind the ear- 
coverts — ^generally referred to by boys as " a white 
ring round the neck." 
While the majority of our native birds, and parti- 
cularly the useful ones, are dying out as settlement 
extends, there are some species, of which the present 
is one, which have adapted themselves admirably 
