Crown of the head, ear-coverts, and back of the neck mottled with black
and white, a longitudinal mark of black running down the centre of each
feather; throat and under surface greyish white, the stem of each
feather, which ends lanceolate, pure white; back, wings and tail light
brown; irides brown; bill dark bluish horn-colour; legs and feet light
blue.
The figures are those of a male and a female, and a nest, of the natural
size.
[Illustration:
ZANTHOMYZA PHRYGIA: _Swains._
_J. Gould and H. C. Richter del et lith._ _C. Hullmandel Imp._
]
ZANTHOMYZA PHRYGIA, _Swains._
Warty-faced Honey-eater.
_Merops Phrygius_, Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp., p. xxxiv.—Shaw, Zool. of New
Holl., p. 13. pl. 4,—Vieill. 2nde édit. du Nouv. d’Hist.
Nat., tom. xxvii. p. 428.
_Philedon_, Temm. Men., 2nde édit., tom. i. p. lxxxvii.
_Warty-faced Honey-eater_, Lewin, Birds of New Holl., pl. 14.
_Black and Yellow Bee-eater_, Lath. Gen. Syn. Supp., vol. ii. p. 154.
_Black and Yellow Honey-eater_, Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. iv. p. 165.
_Embroidered Bee-eater_, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. viii. p. 167. pl. 20.
_Philemon Phrygius_, Vieill. Ency. Méth., Part II. p. 617.
_Le Merle écaillé_, Le Vaill. Ois. d’Afr., tom. iii. pl. 116.
_Meliphaga Phrygia_, Lewin, Birds of New Holl., p. 13. pl. 4.—G. R.
Gray, Gen. of Birds, 2nd Edit., p. 20.
_Anthochæra Phrygia_, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p.
322.
_Zanthomiza Phrygia_, Swains. Class. of Birds, vol. ii. p. 326.
_Mock Regent Bird_, Colonists of New South Wales.
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