“It inhabits every variety of wooded situation, in all parts of the colony, and is generally met with in small families. In flying the wings are moved very rapidly, but the bird does make progress in proportion to the apparent exertion; at times, when passing from tree to tree, its flight is graceful in the extreme. “Its note is a loud _pee-pee_, which is often very much varied. “The stomach is small but tolerably muscular; and the food, which consists of coleopterous and other insects, seeds and berries, is procured both on the ground and among the branches. “The nest is built on an upright fork of the topmost branches of the smaller gum-trees, and is formed of small dried sticks lined with soft grasses and feathers. The eggs are eleven and a half lines long by nine lines broad, of a rich orange-buff, obscurely spotted and blotched with a deeper tint, particularly at the larger end.” The sexes offer but little difference in colour, but the female is somewhat smaller in all her admeasurements. Forehead yellowish olive; lores, line beneath the eye and ear-coverts black; head and all the upper surface dull grey, with an indistinct line of brown down the centre of each feather, giving the whole a mottled appearance; wings and tail brown, margined at the base of the external webs with wax-yellow, the tail terminating in white; throat and under surface dull grey, becoming lighter on the lower part of the abdomen and under tail-coverts; the feathers of the breast with a crescent-shaped mark of light brown near the extremity, and tipped with light grey; irides dark brown; bare skin round the eye, bill, and bare patch on each side of the throat, bright yellow; legs and feet dull reddish yellow; claws dark brown. The Plate represents the two sexes of the natural size. [Illustration: MYZANTHA LUTEA: _Gould_. _J. Gould and H. C. Richter del et lith._ _C. Hullmandel Imp._ ] MYZANTHA LUTEA, _Gould_. Luteous Honey-eater. _Myzantha lutea_, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., Part VII. p. 134. I consider this to be by far the finest species of the genus yet discovered, exceeding as it does every other both in size and in the brilliancy of its colouring. I am indebted to Messrs. Bynoe and Dring for fine specimens of this beautiful bird, which were obtained by those gentlemen on the north-west coast of Australia, in which part of the country it supplies the place of the _Myzantha garrula_ of New South Wales. The law of representation is rarely carried out in a more beautiful manner, even in the ornithology of Australia, than in the members of the present genus; the _Myzantha garrula_ being, so far as is yet known, confined to the south-eastern portion of the country, the _M. lutea_ to the neighbourhood of the north coast, the _Myzantha obscura_ to Swan River on the western coast, and the _M. flavigula_ to the north-eastern portion of the country.