Select Specimens / From Nature / of the / Birds Animals &c &c / of / New South Wales / Collected and Arranged / by / Thomas Skottowe Esqr. / The Drawings By T.R. Browne. N.S.W. / Newcastle / New South Wales / 1813 - Page 27

Honey Sucker

This Bird resorts in what are called the Honey Suckle Trees in this Country; its food arising from the Honey which it finds in the Flower or seed / a specimen of which is here given / this it extracts with its Tongue, which is long and divided at the extremity into small filaments [indecipherable] similar to a Hair Pencil. This Drawing is as large as Life.

Native Name Bindelong