340 UECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSKUM. 



Order PASSERES. 

 Family PTILONORHYNCHID^. 



ClILAMYDODERA MACULATA, (iouhl. 



Spotted Boiver-hiyd. 



Only a single example of this species has come under my notice. 

 It was received in the flesh by the Trustees of the Australian 

 Museum, and was shot in an apple tree in a garden at 8mithfield, 

 about twenty miles from Sydney, on the 19th May, 1902, by a 

 son of Mr. James Stein, the donor, and during a severe drought 

 inland. This specimen, a fine old adult male in perfect plumage, 

 was exhibited at a meeting of the Liniiean Society of New South 

 Wales, on the •25th June,*1902. 



Famllu C AMPOPH AGI D.i^. 



Edgliisoma ti:nuirostri-:, .hu-diiii\ 



Jdrdinrs C(ifi'rjiiUar-''nti'r. 



1 first observed this species in the County of Cumberland at 

 Waterfall in 1 898, and later at Roseville, on the 20th October, 1 900. 

 It is a regular migrant, arriving in the latter locality on or about 

 the same date every year, remaining to breed, and departing 

 again about the end of January or early in February. Only two 

 or three pairs visit the district, one's attention being atti'acted to 

 them by their peculiar frog-like note. A nest found at Roseville, 

 on the 30th November, 1901, was built in a forked horizontal 

 branch of a I'asuar'ma siiherosa, and contained an incubated egg 

 This species is more numerous in parts of the adjoining County 

 of Northumberland. 



Family MELIPHAGID^. 



Entomophila picta, Gould. 



Painted lloney-fater. 



This rare Honey-eater is nomadic in habits and is chiefly au 

 inhabitant of the inland portions of the State. On the 14th 

 February, 1901, a nest and two eggs were taken at Fivedock, a 

 suburb of Sydney, and the parent bird procui'ed. A week later, 

 collecting on behalf of the Trustees of the Australian Museum, 

 Mr. R. Grant shot an adult male in the adjoining suburb of 

 Abbotsford, and brought back with hiin an unfinished nqst of this 



