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.
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.