Thehead of the male has a kind of black leathery excrescence underthe bill that gives it an odd expression, and the whole birdhas a strange odour of musk, rendering it quite uneatable. Mitchell, `Three Expeditions into the Interiorof Eastern Australia,' vol. Domett, `Ranolf,' v. '
melanoptera, Gould. -- Callistemon salignus, De C. Letter from Mrs. viminalis, Labill.