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2 S71 Brush Wattle-Bird, Mocking-Bird, Mocker, Cookay- 
2 cock, AnelloMa chrysoptera (melUvora), S.Q., N.S.W., 
v., S.A., T. Stat. c. timher 12 
Brown, lined white; quills lined, tipped white; tail tipped 
white; throat whitish; no wattle; f., smaller. Showy, 
pugnacious, many curious notes. 
1 372* Spiny-cheeked Honey'eater^Acanthagenys rufigularis, 
1 A. Nom. c. tim'ber, scruh 10 
Upper dusky-brown; white spiny feathers, below eye to ear; 
throat, chest rufous; abdomen whitish, streaked dusky- 
brown; tail tipped white; f., sim. Insects, honey. 
Many peculiar loud notes, a plaintive trill. 
3 373*Blue-£aced Honey-eater, Banana-Bird, Blue-eye, Ento- 
3 myzon cyanotis, E.A., S.A. Stat. c. tim'ber 12 
Attractive, beautiful; upper golden olive-green; head, 
hind-neck black; throat dusky; line on hind-neck, side 
throat, under white; about eye blue; f., sim. Insects, 
honey. Loud monotonous call. 
3 374 ♦Friar-Bird, Monk, Leatherhead, Four-o '-clock, Pim- /| 
8 lico, Poor Soldier, Tropidor'hynchus corniculatus, v/ 
E.A., S.A. Insects. Nom. c. open forest, orchardl^.2 
Head naked, ink-black; knob on bill; brown; tail tipped a/iA 
white; silver-white lanceolate feathers on throat; f.,'^*^,- 
sim. ^oisy, "Tobacco-box," "four-o'-clock." Fruit. 
2 S75*YeIIow-throated Friar-Bird, Little Leatherhead, Phi- 
12 lemon citreigularis, N. Ter., E.A., S.A., N.W.A. 
Nom. r. timber 
Upper brown; under pale brown; throat yellow (young), 
white (adult); the colored plate shows a young bird; 
the adult loses yellow on throat, black on face, grayish 
marks on back, and becomes "one of the plainest of 
birds"; f., similar to adult male. Insects, berries, 
honey. "Five-o '-clock." 
F. 145. Mniotiltidae, American Warblers, 231 sp. — 2(0)P., 
80(12)Nc., 219(151)N1. 
F. 146. Drepanididae, Sandwich Island Honeyeaters, 40 sp. A. 
seen. Kendall has immortalized this bird in his beautiful poem, 
'*Bell-Birds." 
The Wattle-Bird is known to all. It is a pugnacious bird, and 
has a rough, disagreeable note. It has a small wattle of naked 
red flesh hanging at the side of the neck, hence the name. The 
bold, pugnacious Brush Wattle-Bird is not so well known, though 
its notes are even more remarkable. Both birds to-day are com- 
mon in the Melbourne Botanic Gardens on the flowering plants in 
the "Australian" section. 
The Spiny-cheeked Honey-eater is said to be a rare bird, but 
there is probably not a park about Melbourne but has some of 
these at present, as well as all through the winter. It is some- 
what similar in build and habits to the Wattle-Birds, but is an 
elegant and attractive bird, with many peculiar notes. 
