HOUN EXPEDITION — AVES. 
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Glyciphila ocularis^ Gould, Bds. Austr., fol., Vol. IV., pi. 31 (1848); Gaclow, 
Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds., Vol. IX., p. 213 (1884). 
Stigm itops ocularis^ North, Nest and Eggs Austr. Bds., p. 198 (1889). 
One adult male, Davenport Creek ; one adult female, Hermannburg. Slightly 
smaller than examples from New South Wales. Total length 4-9 inches, wing 
2‘7, tail 2‘2, tarsus 0-65, bill 0'7. Specimens of G. su'bocularis, from Derby 
and Port Darwin, are much smaller; average length of wing 2 3 inches. 
[In proportion to its size this bird has a louder note than any other Honey- 
eater. xVlthough no larger tlnin a small finch it could be heard 200 yards away. 
They are very plentiful in the stunted mallee and acacias at Davenport Creek. A 
nest found near our camp was constructed of dry grass and green moss, but was 
not quite finished. These birds were afterwards found at several places on the 
homeward track along the Stevenson Creek.] 
No. 62. Ptilotis keartlandi. North. Keartland’s Honey-eater. 
raiotii keartlandi., North, Ibis, 1895, p. 340. 
Adult male. —General colour above pale greyish-brown, slightly tinged with 
olive-yellow and gradually passing into grey on the ci’own of the head aud bull’ on 
the rump; upper tail coverts more distinctly tinged with olive-yellow ; primaries, 
secondaries, and their coverts brown, strongly washed with bright olive-yellow on 
their outer webs; the median series of the greater wing-coverts slightly tinged 
with bull; lesser wing-coverts brown, washed with grey; tips of secondaries and 
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the outer webs of the three longest primaries towards the tips narrowly edged 
with dull ashy-white; tail-feathers brown, externally washed with bright olive- 
yellow, and all but the two centre tail-feathers having dull whitish tips; a line in 
front, and the feathers above and below the eye, blackish; ear-coverts silky-grey, 
slightly tipped with blackish-brown; extending behind and partially concealed by 
the posterior and lower corner of the ear-coverts a conspicuous patch of bright 
yellow feathers; cheeks, chin, throat, and all the under surface pale lemon-yellow, 
slightly darker on the centre of the throat and fore-neck ; each feather of the 
latter and those on the sides of the breast having a narrow indistinct line of 
brown down the centre; thighs brown; under tail-coverts, pale lemon-yellow; 
under wing-coverts and inner margins of primaries, pale fulvous; bill, blackish- 
brown; legs and feet, dark fleshy-brown; iris, dark brown. Total length 5'6 
inches, wing 3T3, tail 2’2, bill from g.ipe 0’7, tarsus 0‘8. 
