_Graculine Honey-eater_, Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. iv. p. 166. _Blue-eared Grakle_, Lath. Gen. Syn. Supp., vol. ii. p. 130. _Turdus cyaneus_, Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp., p. xlii. _Blue-cheeked Thrush_, Ib. Gen. Syn. Supp., vol. ii. p. 184.—Gen. Hist., vol. v. p. 124. _Tropidorhynchus cyanotis_, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 325. _Entomyza cyanotis_, Swains. Class. of Birds, vol. ii. p. 328.—G. R. Gray, List of Gen. of Birds, p. 16. _L’Heorotaire graculé_, Vieill. Ois. Dor., tom. ii. p. 125. pl. 87, young. _Graculine Creeper_, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. viii. p. 242, young. _Graculine Honey-eater_, var. A., Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. iv. p. 166, young. _Pale-cheeked Honey-eater_, Ib., p. 167, young. _Merops cyanops_, Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp., p. xxxiv, young. _Blue-cheeked Bee-eater_, Ib. Gen. Syn. Supp., vol. ii. p. 154, young.—Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. viii. p. 171, young. _Blue-cheeked Honey-eater_, Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. iv. p. 167, young. ——, var. A. and B., Ib., p. 168, young. _White-crowned Honey-eater_, Ib., p. 169, young. _Batikin_, Aborigines of the coast of New South Wales. _Blue-eye_ of the Colonists. This attractive and beautiful Honey-eater, one of the finest of the _Meliphagidæ_, is strictly indigenous to New South Wales, where it is abundant and very generally dispersed: I observed it in nearly every part of the colony I visited, both in winter and summer. I also shot a single specimen on the Namoi, but as this was almost the only one I saw beyond the mountain ranges, I believe its most natural habitat to be between the great dividing chain of mountains and the sea. In all probability it may be found far to the northward on the eastern coast, but it has not yet been observed in South Australia, neither is it an inhabitant of Van Diemen’s Land. In habits and actions the Blue-faced Honey-eater bears a striking resemblance to the members of the genera _Ptilotis_ and _Hæmatops_; like them, it is found almost exclusively on the _Eucalypti_, searching among the blossoms and smaller leafy branches for its food, which is of a mixed character, consisting partly of insects and partly of honey, and probably, judging from others of its family, berries and fruits, but this latter supposition I was not able to verify. Mr. Caley states, that he once saw “several of them frequenting a tree, where they were very busy in obtaining something that appeared to have exuded from a wounded part. I do not know what the substance could be, otherwise than a kind of gum of a bitter and astringent taste.” As I have never detected them in feeding on this or any similar substance, I should rather suppose they were in search of the insects that might have been attracted by this exudation.