Wattle-bird (Anchochaera carunculata), a wattled Honey-eater (q.v.) of Australia, with wattles half an inch long. The plumage is variegated gray, brown, and white, and the flesh is delicious eating. In a Tasmanian species (A. inauris) the wattles are over an inch long.
Wattle-bird
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 580
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