Blue-eye

Blue-eye (Entomya cyanotis), a beautiful little bird, abundant and very generally dispersed in New South Wales, although not found in Victoria. It is one of the Honey-eaters (q.v.) or Honey-suckers, and is sometimes called the Blue-cheeked Honey-eater. It seeks its food almost exclusively among the blossoms and small leafy branches of gum-trees (Eucalypti), and finds it partly in insects and partly in nectar, though perhaps also in berries. It is a bold and spirited bird, of most elegant and graceful movements. Numbers are often seen together clinging and hanging in every variety of position, frequently at the extreme ends of the small branches.