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latitude, and twenty-six degrees of longitude. This spe- 
cimen was taken at Endeavour River, on the East Coast. 
There is also another specimen of this bird in the Linnean 
Society’s collection, that was taken in the neighbourhood of 
Port Jackson. 
5. Meliphaga corniculata. Levoin, 
Merops corniculata, Ind, Orn. i. 276. 
Knob-fronted Honey-eater, Latham^ iv. 161. 
This bird is found upon the whole extent of the Eastern 
Coast. 
The next bird in the collection has been arranged by 
Br. Latham in the Linnean genus Gracula, but appears to 
me to agree in no respect with that genus, as originally 
characterized by Linnaeus, much less with it as it has been 
modified by modern ornithologists. Whether we consider, 
according to M. Cuvier % that the type of Gracula is the 
Paradisea tristis^ Linn., or, according to M. Temminck, that 
it is the Gracula religiom^ Linn.-j-, in which latter opinion I 
feel rather disposed to acquiesce, my bird agrees with the 
group in none of its essential characters. In fact, the Lin- 
nean genus Oriolus is that to which it bears the closest re- 
semblance in its general appearance ; particularly by a si- 
milar disposition of its colours, and in the structure of its 
bill, wings, and legs. I would at once refer it to that 
genus, but that I have some reason to think that it belongs 
to the meliphagous birds, which are so abundant in New 
Holland, and which have been observed to assume the ap- 
pearance of almost every group in the Insessores. Indeed, 
some birds of that country, which have been decided to be 
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* Regne Anim. i. 360. 
t Analyse d'un iSyst, Gen. d'Orn. p* 52» 
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