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WATY-FACE HONEY-SUCKER. 
(PL III.) 
LENGTH 
Eight inches and a quarter; hill half an inch and black; eyes brown; lashes 
grey; forehead, crown, chin, throat, and neck, deep black; from the base of the bill 
round the eye and part of the cheek a warty pale yellow patch, covered .with hard 
oblong excrescences; back, rump, tail-coverts, breast and belly, vent and thighs, 
black, with angular markings of pale yellow; shoulders black; lesser wing-coverts the 
same, edged with pale yellow; tail cuneiform, the second middle feathers black, in the 
other feathers the black only reaches half way, the half is bright yellow; legs and 
claws brown. 
INHABITS 
These beautiful birds were seen near Paramatta, in great numbers, constantly flying 
from tree to tree, (particularly the blue gum,) feeding among the blossoms, extracting 
the honey with their long fibrous tongues from every flower as they passed. Many of 
them remained that summer and then disappeared. 
