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NESTS AND EGGS OF AVSTKAI.IAN BIKDS. 



from three to seven or eight among the mangi-oves or the densest 

 thickets. He found it wilder and more solitai-y than the common White 

 Eye ( Z. creruh.iren.'i), and says that it does not, hke that bird, resort to 

 tlie gardens and the neiglibotuhood of the houses of the settlers. Its 

 notes are a pretty canary-like song. 



In winter, Mr. Tom Carter finds this Wliite Eye common in the 

 region of the North-west Cape. 



290. — ZosTEROPS GULLivERi. Castelnau and Ramsay. 

 GULLIVER WHITE EYE. 



Reference.— Cal Birds Brit. Mus., vol. ix., p. i88. 



Gengrnphiral Distrihution. — Northern Teiritoi-y and North Queens- 

 land. 



NeH and Eggs. — Undescribed. 



Ohservatioiis:. — This fine little White Eye was dedicated to its dis- 

 coverer, Mr. T. A. Gulliver, for many years a faithful and honoured 

 servant of the Postal and Telegi-aph Department of Queensland. I 

 believe Mr. Gulliver discovered his feathered namesake when he was 

 stationed at Normanton. 



Sub-family — Myzomelin-e. 



291. — Myzomela sanguinolenta, Latham. — (341) 

 BLOOD HONEYEATER. 



Figure.— Gould : Birds of Australia, fol , vol iv., pi 63. 



Reference.— Cm. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. ix., p. 131 



Previous Descriptions of Eggs. — Ramsay : Ibis, p. 304 (1865) ; Campbell : 

 Southern Science Record (1883) ; also Proc. Austn. Assoc, vol. vii., 

 p. 579 (1898) : North ■ Austn Mus. Cat., pi 13. fig. 20 (1889). 



Gengrnphiml Digtrihtition. — Queensland, New South Wales, and 

 Victoria. 



Neat. — Cup-shaped, small, neat ; composed of shreds of brownish 

 bark, Uned inside with a few casuarina needles ; sometimes there is no 

 lining; usually suspended in a bush or small tree — melaleuca, casuarina, 

 etc. Dimensions over all, 2 inches by li inches in depth; egg cavity, 

 1| inches across by 1 inch deep. 



