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BLUE-FACE HONEY-SUCKER. 
(PI. IV.) 
LENGTH 
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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; cheek 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. 
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. 
