Lores, space surrounding the eye and the ear-coverts dark silky brown; a broad line of white, bounded above and beneath with a narrow one of dark brown, commences at the base of the upper mandible, passes over the eye and continues to the occiput; crown of the head and all the upper surface, flanks and under tail-coverts olive-brown, passing into a purer and deeper brown on the primaries; tail dark brown, crossed by very indistinct bars of a darker colour, the five lateral feathers on each side tipped with white; chin, throat and chest white; bill blackish brown, the lower part of the under mandible greyish white; irides in the adult straw-yellow, in the young brown; feet blackish brown. The figures are of the natural size. [Illustration: MELIPHAGA NOVÆ-HOLLANDIÆ: _Vig. & Horsf._ _J. Gould and H. C. Richter del et lith._ _C. Hullmandel Imp._ ] MELIPHAGA NOVÆ-HOLLANDIÆ, _Vig. & Horsf._ New Holland Honey-eater. _Certhia Novæ-Hollandiæ_, Lath. Ind. Orn., p. 296.—Turton’s Edit. of Linn. Syst. Nat., vol. i. p. 292. _New Holland Creeper_, White’s Journ., pl. in p. 186.—Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. iv. p. 171.—Shaw’s Gen. Zool., vol. viii. p. 225. _L’Héorotaire tacheté_, Vieill. Ois. dor., tom. ii. p. 91. pl. 57. _Meliphaga Novæ-Hollandiæ_, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 311. _Melitreptus Novæ-Hollandiæ_, Vieill. 2nde Edit. du Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., tom. xiv. p. 328; and Ency. Méth. Orn., Part II. p. 606. _Meliphaga Balgonera_, Steph. Cont. of Shaw’s Gen. Zool., vol. xiv. p. 261. _Meliphaga barbata_, Swains. Class. of Birds, vol. ii. p. 326. _Meliornis Novæ-Hollandiæ_, G. R. Gray, List of Gen. of Birds, 2nd Edit., p. 19. I quite agree with Messrs. Vigors and Horsfield in making the bird forming the subject of the present Plate the type of the restricted genus _Meliphaga_. Independently of its claim to this distinction from the circumstance of its being the oldest known, it is the species to which the generic term is especially applicable, since, I conceive, it feeds less upon insects and more upon nectarine juices than any other of the family.