The same restless disposition appears to be common to all the tribe of Honey-eaters, and this bird is as active and quick in its movements as the smallest of the genus, hanging and clinging to the branches in every possible variety of position; and when thirty or forty are seen on a single tree, they present a very animated appearance. Its flight, which seldom extends farther than from tree to tree, is very similar to that of the Magpie of Europe. Its note is a harsh and disagreeable scream, resembling in loudness and somewhat in tone the call of the Pheasant; by some persons it has been compared to the sound produced by the retching or vomiting of man. Both sexes have the wattled appendages beneath the ear, but they are less developed in the female, whose size is also smaller than that of her mate. Although I found several of the nests of this species in various parts of the colony, I failed in procuring the eggs, which are still desiderata to my cabinet. The nests were moderately large cup-shaped structures, formed of fine twigs and grasses intermingled with wool, and were usually built on some low tree, such as the _Casuarina_ or _Acacia_. Crown of the head and back of the neck striped with black and grey, the centre of each feather being black, and its external edges grey; back and shoulders dusky brown, the shaft of each feather buffy white; wings deep blackish brown, the external margins of the primaries slightly, and the secondaries broadly fringed with grey; tips of all the primaries white; tail much graduated; the upper tail-coverts and two middle tail-feathers grey, the remainder blackish brown, and the whole tipped with white; chin and under tail-coverts white; throat, breast and flanks grey, each feather having a central mark of blackish brown, which is much enlarged on the lower part of the breast; centre of the abdomen rich yellow; bill black; corner of the mouth yellow; irides very dark brownish black; feet light flesh-colour; claws black; bare skin round the ear, and the upper part of the long pendulous wattle which hangs from below the ear white, gradually deepening into rich orange at its extremity. The Plate represents the two sexes of the natural size. [Illustration: ANTHOCHÆRA CARUNCULATA. _J. Gould and H. C. Richter del et lith._ _Hullmandel & Walton Imp._ ] ANTHOCHÆRA CARUNCULATA. Wattled Honey-eater. _Merops carunculatus_, Lath. Ind. Orn., vol. i. p. 276. _Corvus paradoxus_, Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp., p. 26. —— _carunculatus_, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. vii. p. 378. _Pie à pendeloques_, Daud. Orn., tom. ii. p. 246. pl. 16. _Wattled Crow_, Lath. Gen. Syn. Supp., vol. ii. p. 119. _Wattled Bee-eater_, Lath. Gen. Syn. Supp., vol. ii. p. 150.—Phil. Bot. Bay, pl. in p. 164.—White’s Journ., pl. in p. 144.—Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. viii. p. 173.—Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. iv. p. 158.