phagous birds are a peculiar and
striking feature in Australian ornithology. As Gould points
out, they are to the fauna what the eucalypts, banksias, and
melaleucas are to the flora of Australia. They are closely
adapted to feeding on these trees. That great author asks:--
`What can be more plain than that the brushlike tongue is
especially formed for gathering the honey from the flower-cups
of the eucalypti, or that their diminutive stomachs are
especially formed for this kind of food, and the peculiar
insects which constitute a portion of it?'"

<hw>Honey-Eucalypt</hw>, <i>n</i>. See <i>Box-tree, Yellow</i>.

<hw>Honey-flower</hw>, <i>n</i>. <i>Lambertia formosa</i>, Smith,
<i>N.O. Proteaceae</i>.

1802. G. Barrington, `History of New South Wales,' c. iv.
p. 101:

"They . . . returned . . . dreadfully exhausted, having
existed chiefly by sucking the wild honey-flower and shrubs."

1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p. 37:

"`Honey-flower' or `honeysuckle,' a plant as well known to
small boys about Sydney as to birds and insects. It obtains
its vernacular name on account of the large quantity of a clear
honey-like liquid the flowers contain. After sucking some
quantity the liquid generally produces nausea and headache."

<hw>Honey-plant</hw>, <i>n</i>. name given in Tasmania to
<i>Richea scoparia</i> Hook., <i>N.O. Epacris</i>.

<hw>Honeysuckle</hw>, <i>n</i>. name given to the <i>Banksias</i>
(q.v.); also called <i>Bottle-brush</i> (q.v.).
The species are--

Coast Honeysuckle--
<i>Banksia integrifolia</i>, Linn.

Common H.--
<i>B. marginata</i>, Cav.

Heath H.--
<i>B. serrata</i>, Linn.

New Zealand H.--
<i>Knightia excelsa</i>, R.Br.

Silvery H.--
<i>Grevillea striata</i>, R.Br.

Tasmanian H.--
<i>Banksia margirata</i>, Cav. /sic. Probably marginata/

1834. Ross, `Van Diemen's Land Annual,' p. 125:

"Some scattered honeysuckles, as they, are called, but which,
being specimens of a ligneous evergreen shrub (<i>Banksia
Australis</i>), my English reader will please not to assimilate
in his mind's eye in any respect with the woodbine."

1846. G. H. Haydon, `Five Years in Australia Felix,' p. 84:

"The honeysuckle (<i>Banksia integrifolia</i>) will greatly
disappoint those who, from its name, expect to see anything
similar to the sweet-scented climbers of English hedges and
gardens--this being a tree attaining to thirty or forty feet in
height, with spiral yellow flo