. Illustrations of ornithology . y- //,///,/, €6 fr//rs a:,.. / . / / / MELIPHAGA CHRYSOPS, Vigors % Honey-eater. PLATE XXXV.—Fig. 1. M. supra olivacea-fusca, subtus pallidior; taenia per oculos flava, supra subtusquenigra marginata. Meliphaga chrysops, Fig. fy Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xv. P, I. p. chrysops, Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp. p. Honey-eater, Lath. Gen. Hist iv. p. 196. X he length of this species is about six inches, the form rather slender andlengthened. The whole upper parts are deep oil-green, with the centreof each feather consi
. Illustrations of ornithology . y- //,///,/, €6 fr//rs a:,.. / . / / / MELIPHAGA CHRYSOPS, Vigors % Honey-eater. PLATE XXXV.—Fig. 1. M. supra olivacea-fusca, subtus pallidior; taenia per oculos flava, supra subtusquenigra marginata. Meliphaga chrysops, Fig. fy Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xv. P, I. p. chrysops, Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp. p. Honey-eater, Lath. Gen. Hist iv. p. 196. X he length of this species is about six inches, the form rather slender andlengthened. The whole upper parts are deep oil-green, with the centreof each feather considerably darker. The space between the bill and theeyes, and under the eyes, are bright gamboge-yellow, forming a patch ofthat colour, which ends on the cheeks and upper part of the neck in a curvedstripe of pale yellowish-white : this light space is bordered on each sidewith a narrow line of black, the upper extending from the eye above theauriculars, the lower from the base of the under mandible, and widensas it reaches the sides of the neck. The throat
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