\ESTS A.\D EGGS i'.- it .> / A -l £/.•! .V BIRDS ■i,?.\ 



However, in the North-west Desert. Mr. G. A. Keartland notices 

 sometliing similar, for he records : " Towards the end of October (1896^ 

 flocks of these birds frequently passed u> going north." 



The knowledge we possess about the rare Pied Honeveater is some- 

 what scant. Tlie nest and eggs collected by the late Mr. K. H. Bennett, 

 and dfscribed bv Dr. Ramsay* were no doubt, as Mr. Keartland has 

 point*. d out, referable to the Pied Robin (P. himfor). and not the Pied 

 Honeyeater. 



I have had the eggs (two clutches) in my collection since 1S90, from the 

 Gascoyne district. Western Australia, but as no data accompanied the 

 specimens I was unable to identify them until Mr. Keartland recognised 

 them by a nest he found during the progress of the ill-starred Calvert 

 Expedition througli North-western Australia, The nest was found on 

 the '2'2nd October, 1?96. about seven feet frord the ground, in a cork- 

 tree, and was among the specimens left at the abandoned dejwt in the 

 desert. It is melancholy to reflect that this particular nest and single 

 egg were found only a day or two before Mr. Keartland and Mr. G. L. 

 Jones finally parted, the latter, as will be well remembered, perishing 

 from thirst in the sand ridges of that terrible region. 



Brecdinff months, October to March. 



319. — MzuPH.\.G.*. rHETGi.\, Latham. — (324^ 

 WARTY-FACED HONEYEATER. 



Fi^tirf — Gonld ; Birds of Anstralia, fol.. ro\. iv.. pi. 48. 



Reftreiue — Cat, Birds BriL Mns., vol. ix., p. 221. 



Previtms Dtscrfticms cf Eggs — Gonld : Birds of .■Australia (184S) : also 

 Handbook, vol. i.. p. 52S (1S65) : Ramsay : Trans. Phil. Soc.. 

 N.S, Wales, with fig. (1S65) : North : Austn. >Ius. Cat., pi. 12, 

 fig. 8(iSS9): Campbell : Proc. Anstn. Soc., v<l. vii.,p, 605 (180S). 



Geographical Distribution. — Queensland. New South Wales, "Victoria 

 and South Australia. 



Xfst. — Cup-shaped, round : composed of strips of soft, brownish bark, 

 with an admixture of spiders' greenish cocoons ; inside lined with fine 

 bark, grass, and soft materials, such as wool, hair, <jcc, : usually placed 

 on a horizontal limb at the junction of a sprouting branch, or in a fork 

 in rough-barked eucalvpts. in open forest. Dimensions over all, 4-41 

 inches by '2 inches in depth ; egg cavity, 2 J inches across bv l^ inches 

 deep. 



£<?!/<. — Clutch, two : inclined to elliptical in sha{>e ; texture fine : 

 surface slightly glossy ; colour, rich reddish-buflF. darker on the apex, 

 where is a zone of soft or indistinct spots of reddish and purplish-brown, 

 a few spots also appearing over the rest of the surface. Dimensions in 

 inches of a clutch : (I) 96 x 67. (2^ -93 x -67. (Plate 14.) 



* Proc Linn Soc . N S Wales, vol vii , p 414. 1SS2 



