Upper surface and abdomen yellowish olive; crown of the head grey, streaked longitudinally with black; throat and chest black; ear-feathers pure silvery white; tips of the tail-feathers yellowish white; bill black; irides greenish grey, with a narrow ring of pale wood-brown; legs and feet leaden greenish grey.
The figures represent the two sexes of the natural size.
PTILOTIS AURICOMIS: Swains.
J. Gould and H. C. Richter del et lith. C. Hullmandel Imp.
PTILOTIS AURICOMIS.
Yellow-tufted Honey-eater.
Yellow-tufted Flycatcher, Lath. Gen. Syn. Supp., vol. ii. p. 215.—Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. viii. p. 172.
Certhia auriculata, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. viii. p. 236.
Muscicapa mystacea, Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp., p. li.?
Mustachoe Honey-eater, Lath. Gen. Syn. Supp., vol. ii. p. 221?—Ib. Gen. Hist., vol. iv. p. 177?
Muscicapa auricomis, Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp., p. xlix.—Steph. Cont. of Shaw’s Gen. Zool., vol. x. p. 354.