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=370* Wattle-Bird=, Red Wattle-Bird, Gill-Bird, Wattled Honey-eater, Mutton-Bird (e), Acanthcchaera carunculata, S.Q., N.S.W., V., S.A., W.A.

Stat. c. timber 14.5

Brown streaked, lined white; red wattle 1/4in.; whitish below eye, between shoulder and gill; wing quills and tail tipped white; centre abdomen yellow; f., smaller. Insects, honey. "Kwock, kwock;" "Up with the rag." Many curious guttural notes.

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=371 Brush Wattle-Bird=, Mocking-Bird, Mocker, Cookaycock, Anellobia chrysoptera (mellivora), S.Q., N.S.W., V., S.A., T.

Stat. c. timber 12

Brown, lined white; quills lined, tipped white; tail tipped white; throat whitish; no wattle; f., smaller. Showy, pugnacious, many curious notes.

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=372* Spiny-cheeked Honey-eater=, Acanthagenys rufigularis, A.

Nom. c. timber, scrub 10

Upper dusky-brown; white spiny feathers, below eye to ear; throat, chest rufous; abdomen whitish, streaked dusky-brown; tail tipped white; f., sim. Insects, honey. Many peculiar loud notes, a plaintive trill.

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=373* Blue-faced Honey-eater=, Banana-Bird, Blue-eye, Entomyzon cyanotis, E.A., S.A.

Stat. c. timber 12

Attractive, beautiful; upper golden olive-green; head, hind-neck black; throat dusky; line on hind-neck, side throat, under white; about eye blue; f., sim. Insects, honey. Loud monotonous call.

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=374* Friar-Bird=, Monk, Leatherhead, Four-o'-clock, Pimlico, Poor Soldier, Tropidorhynchus corniculatus, E.A., S.A. Insects.

Nom. c. open forest, orchard 13.2

Head naked, ink-black; knob on bill; brown; tail tipped white; silver-white lanceolate feathers on throat; f., sim. Noisy, "Tobacco-box," "four-o'-clock." Fruit.

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=375* Yellow-throated Friar-Bird=, Little Leatherhead, Philemon citreigularis, N. Ter., E.A., S.A., N.W.A.

Nom. r. timber 10

Upper brown; under pale brown; throat yellow (young), white (adult); the colored plate shows a young bird; the adult loses yellow on throat, black on face, grayish marks on back, and becomes "one of the plainest of birds"; f., similar to adult male. Insects, berries, honey. "Five-o'-clock."

F. 145. Mniotiltidae, American Warblers, 231 sp.--2(0)P., 80(12)Nc., 219(151)Nl.

F. 146. Drepanididae, Sandwich Island Honeyeaters, 40 sp. A.

F. 147. MOTACILLIDAE (2), Pipits, Wagtails, 107 sp.--11(6)A., 32(6)O., 53(12)P., 49(32)E., 7(1)Nc.,

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