_J. Gould and H. C. Richter del et lith._ _Hullmandel & Walton Imp._ ] GLYCIPHILA OCULARIS, _Gould_. Brown Honey-eater. _Glyciphila? ocularis_, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., Part V. p. 154; and in Syn. Birds of Australia, Part IV. ——? _subocularis_, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., Part V. p. 154; and in Syn. Birds of Australia, Part IV., female or young male. _Jȉn-jo-gour_, Aborigines of the mountain districts of Western Australia. _Brown Honey-sucker_ of the Colonists. Not one of the numerous species of Honey-eaters inhabiting Australia appears to enjoy a more universal range than the _Glyciphila ocularis_; I have received specimens from every portion of the country yet visited; and if it does not also inhabit New Guinea and Timor, its place is there supplied by species so very nearly allied to it, that they are not readily distinguishable from each other. It inhabits every variety of situation: I met with it in abundance on Baker’s Island at the mouth of the Hunter, and on the banks of the Namoi in the interior of New South Wales; and Mr. Gilbert records that he found it to be equally numerous at Swan River and at Port Essington: in each and all of these various localities it was observed feeding alike on the topmost branches of the tallest gums, as well as in the low trees. In its actions and manners it displays the usual activity of the Honey-eaters generally, creeping and clinging among the branches with the greatest ease, and particularly affecting those most laden with blossoms, into which it inserts its brush-like tongue to procure the sweet pollen: like the other species of the group, it also feeds with avidity upon all kinds of small insects. Its powers of song are very great, the most frequently repeated note being remarkably shrill, rich, clear and distinct in tone, and the others forming an agreeable melody. While the female is sitting upon her eggs, the male sings all day long with scarcely any intermission. Its flight merely consists of short flits from tree to tree.