Naked space behind the eye, forehead and the tips of several feathers on
the sides of the neck, fine citron-yellow; lores blackish brown with
silvery reflexions; upper surface grey, the feathers of the back of the
neck and back crossed near the tip with white; rump, upper tail-coverts
and under surface white; throat and chest tinged with grey, each feather
crossed by an arrow-shaped mark of brown; wings and tail brown, the
external margins of the feathers dull citron-yellow; tail tipped with
white; bill fine citron-yellow; feet yellowish brown.
The Plate represents the two sexes of the natural size.
[Illustration:
MYZANTHA FLAVICULA: _Gould_.
_J. Gould and H. C. Richter del et lith._ _Hullmandel & Walton Imp._
]
MYZANTHA FLAVIGULA, _Gould_.
Yellow-throated Miner.
_Myzantha flavigula_, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., Part VII. p. 143.
This species inhabits the interior of New South Wales, where it is
tolerably abundant in most of the belts of _Eucalypti_ bordering the
river Namoi and all similar situations: although it has many of the
habits and actions of its near ally the _Myzantha garrula_, it is much
more shy in disposition, less noisy, and more disposed to frequent the
tops of the trees; and so exclusively does it replace the common species
in the districts alluded to that the latter does not occur therein.
I did not succeed in finding the nest, but the fact of my having shot
very young individuals affords indubitable evidence that the bird breeds
in the localities above-mentioned.
The sexes are alike in plumage.
Naked space behind the eye, forehead, upper part of the throat, and the
tips of several feathers on each side of the neck citron-yellow; rump
and upper tail-coverts white; back of the neck and back grey, each
feather obscurely barred with white near the tip; lores and ear-coverts
black, the latter crossed with silvery grey; throat, cheeks, and all the
under surface white, the feathers of the chest crossed by an
arrow-shaped mark of brown; wings and tail dark brown, the outer webs of
the primaries, many of the secondaries, and the basal portion of the
tail-feathers dull citron-yellow; all the tail-feathers tipped with
white; bill bright orange-yellow; feet yellow; irides leaden brown.
The figures represent the two sexes of the natural size.
[Illustration:
MYZANTHA VIRIDIS.
_J. Gould and H. C. Richter del et lith._ _Hullmandel & Walton Imp._
]
MYZANTHA MELANOPHRYS.
Australian Bell-bird.
_Turdus melanophrys_, Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp., p. xlii.
_Black-browed Thrush_, Lath. Gen. Syn. Supp., vol. ii. p. 185.—Shaw,
Gen. Zool., vol. x. p. 206.—Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. v. p.
125.
_Manorhina viridis_, Vieill. Gal. des Ois., pi. 149.—Jard. and Selb.
Ill. Orn., vol. ii. pl. 78.
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