. Illustrations of ornithology . to that division of whichMeliphaga auiicomis makes the type. The bill is of greater comparativestrength, and the wings are narrow and lengthened, not short and round-ed as in the other. It is yet the only individual of the genus, and maybe met with in most collections from New Holland. The length is about six inches and a half. The general colour is yel-lowish oil-green, brighter upon the rump, and paler and more dusky onthe under parts; on the shoulders the green changes to a blackish-grey ;the quills are umber-brown, edged with pale whitish-grey on the outerw
. Illustrations of ornithology . to that division of whichMeliphaga auiicomis makes the type. The bill is of greater comparativestrength, and the wings are narrow and lengthened, not short and round-ed as in the other. It is yet the only individual of the genus, and maybe met with in most collections from New Holland. The length is about six inches and a half. The general colour is yel-lowish oil-green, brighter upon the rump, and paler and more dusky onthe under parts; on the shoulders the green changes to a blackish-grey ;the quills are umber-brown, edged with pale whitish-grey on the outerwebs ; the space between the eyes and nostrils is covered with thick shorthairy-looking feathers, of a bright gamboge-yellow, which runs for a littleway under the eyes. We do not find a bare space surrounding the eyesof our specimens, as mentioned by Vieillot. The under eyelid,- as inmost of the Meliphaga, is nearly bare of feathers; but there is nothinglike a naked circle. The bill, legs, and feet, are bright gamboge-yellow. 79.
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