Crown of the head, a line running from the base of the bill beneath the eye and the ear-coverts blackish brown; space under the eye silvery white, bounded behind by an oblong naked flesh-coloured spot, below which is a short pendulous wattle of a pinky blood-red colour; back of the neck and all the upper surface greyish brown, each feather having a stripe of white down the centre; upper tail-coverts greyish brown, broadly margined with grey; primaries and secondaries deep blackish brown, the former slightly and the latter broadly edged with grey; all the primaries tipped with white; two middle tail-feathers greyish brown, the remainder deep blackish brown, the whole largely tipped with white; throat, breast and flanks grey, the centre of each feather being lighter; middle of the abdomen yellow; irides bright hazel-red; legs brownish flesh-colour; inside of the mouth yellow. The figure is of the natural size. [Illustration: ANTHOCHÆRA MELLIVORA: _Vig. & Horsf._ _J. & E. Gould del et lith._ _C. Hullmandel Imp._ ] ANTHOCHÆRA MELLIVORA, _Vig. & Horsf._ Brush Wattle-Bird. _Certhia mellivora_, Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp., p. xxxvii. _Le Goruck_, Vieill. Ois. Dor., tom. ii. p. 126. pl. 88. _Goruck Creeper_, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. viii. p. 243. _Mellivorous Creeper_, Lath. Gen. Syn. Supp., vol. ii. p. 166. _Wattled Honey-eater_, var. C. Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. iv. p. 159. _Merops chrysopterus_, Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp., p. xxxiii. _Golden-winged Bee-eater_, Lath. Gen. Syn. Supp., vol. ii. p. 153.—Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. viii. p. 180. _Golden-winged Honey-eater_, Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. iv. p. 160. _Mellivorous Honey-eater_, Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. iv. p. 161. _Anthochæra mellivora_, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 321.—Gould, Syn. Birds of Australia, Part I. _Goo-gwar-ruck_, Aborigines of the coast of New South Wales.