Part 69

=358= White-eared Honey-eater =359= Yellow-tufted Honey-eater =362= Yellow-plumed Honey-eater

=363= White-plumed Honey-eater =364= Crescent Honey-eater =365= White-bearded Honey-eater

=360= Helmeted Honey-eater =366= White-cheeked Honey-eater =367= Bell-Miner =368= Noisy Miner =370= Wattle-Bird =372= Spiny-cheeked Honey-eater =373= Blue-faced Honey-eater =374= Friar-Bird

F. 141. DICAEIDAE (11), FLOWER-PECKERS, 113 sp.--57(57)A., 56(56)O.

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=336* Australian Flower-Pecker=, Mistletoe-Bird (-Swallow), Dicaeum hirundinaceum, A.

Stat. c. treetops 3.5

Black glossed steel-blue; throat, breast, under base tail scarlet; abdomen white, black patch down centre; flanks dusky; f.,* throat, centre-abdomen buff; under base tail pale scarlet. Honey, pollen, fruits, insects. Pretty, feeble song.

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=337* Red-tipped Diamond-Bird= (Striated, -Pardalote), Wittychu, Pickwick, Chuck-e-chuc, Pardalotus ornatus, S.Q., N.S.W., V., S.A., W.A.

Stat. c. treetops, scrub 4.2

Crown, wings, tail black spotted, lined white; back gray; rump brown; throat yellow; red spots side of wing, yellow stripe from bill above eye joins white stripe to nape; centre-abdomen white; flanks pale-brown, tinged yellow; f., sim. Insects. "Wit-e-chu."

=338 Orange-tipped Diamond-Bird= (Ramsay, -Pardalote), P. assimilis, E.A., C.A.

Stat. v.c. treetops, timber 4.3

Like 337, but upper paler; orange spots on wing; as a rule only one feather in the wing edged with white; Gould thought it the young of 337; f., sim. Insects. "Wit-e-chu."

=339 Yellow-tipped Diamond-Bird=, Allied Pardalote, P. affinis, E.A., S.A., T., Bass St. Is.

Stat. c. timber 4.3

Like 337, 338, but yellow spot on side of wing; head black, striped white; yellow stripe from bill joins white stripe above eye; back grayish-brown; upper base tail olive-brown; tail black, tip spotted white; throat yellow; centre abdomen white; flanks buffy-brown; wings black, tipped white, a few feathers lined white; f., sim. Insects. "Witloo." "Sleep, Baby."

=340* Spotted Diamond-Bird= (Pardalote), Diamond Dyke (Ground), Ground-Diamond, Diamond Sparrow (e), P. punctatus, T., A. (exc. N.A., C.A.).

Stat. v.c. timber 3.3

Head, wings, tail black, spotted white; white stripe above eye; back grayish-brown, marked buff and black; upper base tail crimson; throat, under base tail rich yellow; abdomen fawn; f., duller; head yellow spots; throat whitish. Insects. "Sleep, Baby," "Sweet Dick."

=341* Golden-rumped Diamond-Bird=, Yellow-rumped Pardalote, P. xanthopygius, N.S.W., V., S.A., W.A. f., duller. Insects.

Stat. r. timber 3.5

Like 340, but upper base tail golden-yellow; throat, under base tail golden-yellow; rest under buffy-white.

F. 142. NECTARINIIDAE (1), SUN-BIRDS, 234 sp.--36(33)A., 77(74)O., 2(1)P., 123(122)E.

F. 143. Promeropidae, Promerops, 2 sp. E. (S. Afr.)

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Order XXI. (continued)