Obdee PASSERES.] 
[Pam. MELIPHAGID.E. 
ACANTHOCHiEEA CAEUNCULATA. 
(AUSTRALIAN HONEY-EATER.) 
Merops carunculatus, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 276 (1790). 
Pie a pendeloques, Daud. Orn. ii. p. 246, pi. 16 (1800). 
Corvus paradoxus. Lath. Ind. Orn. Suppl. p. 26 (1801). 
Wattled Crow, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. ii. p. 119 (1801). 
Wattled Bee-eater, Lath. ibid. p. 150 (1801). 
Corvus carunculatus, Shaw, Gen. Zool. vii. p. 878 (1809). 
Creadion carunculatus, Bonn, et Yieill. Encycl. Meth. ii. p. 874 (182o); Vieill. Gal. Ois. i. pi. 94 
(1825) ; Lesson, Traite d’Orn. i. p. 359 (1831). 
Anthochcera lewini, Vig. & Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 322 (182/), note. 
Anthochcera carunculata , Gould, Birds of Australia, iv. pi. 55 (1848). 
Anthochcera lulleri, Finsch, Journ. f. Orn. 1867, p. 342. 
Anthochcera carunculata, Buller, Trans. N.-Z. Instit. vol. xvi. p. olo (1884). 
Acanthochcera carunculata, Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. vol. ix. p. 26b (1884). 
Desci-. exempt . ex N. Z. Brunnea, plumis omnibus longitudinalitcr albo striatis : supracaudalibus brunneis late albo 
marAnatis : tectricibus alarum magis nigricantibus, albo marginatis, minimis et medianis albo medialiter 
lineatis : remigibus et rectricibus nigricantibus cinerascenti-brunneo marginatis et albo angustius fimbriatis, 
primariis et rectricibus late albo terminatis : pileo nigricante, vix albido lincato : collo postico dorso con- 
colore et in eodem modo lineato : loris quoque nigricantibus : fascia latA suboculari argentescenti-alba : 
re 'done parotica auriculari nigricante, albo minute lineata : plaga pone regionem paroticam fulvescente : 
gcnis nigricanti-brunneis, vix albo minute striatis : gutture et prrepectore brunneis albo lineatis : pectore 
albido, brunneo striato, plumis lateraliter brunneo marginatis : pectore imo et abdomine flavis : corporis 
lateribus albidis, brunneo marginatis, vix flavo lavatis : tibiis brunneis albo striatis : subcaudalibus albidis, 
medialiter brunneis : subalaribus et axillaribus nigricanti-brunneis, albo late marginatis : remigibus infrh 
nigricantibus, intus versus basin rufescentibus : rostro nigricante : pedibus pallide brunneis. 
New-Zealand example. Crown and bind-bead glossy brownish blacb, tbe feathers of the nape with narrow shaft- 
lines of white ; upper surface generally blackish brown, the feathers of the hind neck and shoulders with a 
broad central streak of greyish white ; quills and tail-feathers darker brown ; the primaries and all the 
rectrices, except the two middle ones, largely tipped with white ; the secondaries and the two middle tail- 
feathers largely margined with grey, and the latter minutely tipped with white ; all the wing-coverts and 
the upper tail-coverts broadly margined with fulvous white ; all the primaries except the first largely margined 
on their inner vanes with pale rufous. From the angle of the mouth a widening patch of short silvery- white 
feathers, speckled with brown, extends below the eye and is bounded by a smaU bare space, below which is 
a minute caruncle (now dried and colourless) ; on the sides of the neck, behind the ear-coverts, a broad 
rounded patch of pale fulvous ; sides of the head, behind the eyes, conspicuously speckled with silvery 
white ; fore neck and upper part of the breast dark fulvous brown with a more or less distinct streak of 
white down the shafts ; lower part of breast greyish brown, each feather largely centred and also margined 
with fulvous white ; the whole of the abdomen canary-yellow, with a silky sheen, the underpart of the 
plumage plumbeous ; sides of the body faintly washed with yellow ; vent yellowish white ; under tail- 
coverts fulvous white, the centre of each feather, except the shaft, dull brown ; thighs darker brown with 
light shaft-lines. Bill brownish black; legs pale reddish brown. Total length 15 inches; wing, from 
