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BLUE-FACE HONEY-SUCKER. 
(PL IV.) 
LENGTH 
Thirteen inches; bill one inch, the lower half grey, the other black; eye yellow; 
lashes grey ; round the eye a naked blue skin ; forehead and crown black ; hind-head 
white; chfppk and back of the neck grey-black ; chin and throat grey; from the 
base of the bill on each side white, which passes in a line to the breast; breast, belly, 
and vent, white; back and rump bright olive; primaries brown, edged with grey; 
tail olive, tipt with white, and cuneiform ; legs and claws dark grey. 
INHABITS 
Forests; frequents blue gum trees. 
REMARKS. 
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This species are fond of pecking traverse holes in the bark; between which and the 
wood they insert their long tongues in search of small insects* which they draw to them 
with great dexterity. It is a noisy chattering bird. 
