432 NESTS AND EGGS OF AUSTRALIAN BIRDS. 



361. — Entomyza albipennis, Gould. — (346a) 

 WHITE-QUILLED HONEYEATER. 



Figure. — Gould : Birds of Australia, fol., vol. iv., pi. 6g. 

 Reference. — Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. ix., p. 269. 



Geoffrnpln'col Disfrihutinn. — Northom Territory and Nortli Queens- 

 land. 



Nest nnd Eggs.- — See Appendix. 



Observations. — -The white at the basal of portions of the quills of the 

 wings at once serves to distinguish this fine bird from its southern 

 ally. Little is known of its economy except an interesting paragraph 

 or two from Gilbert's observations made in the Port Dai'win district. 



362. — Philemon corniculatus. Latham.- — (334) 

 FRIAR BIRD. 



Figure. — Gould ; Birds of Australia, fol., vol. iv., pi. 58. 



Reference.. — Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. ix., p. 271. 



Previous Descriftions of Eggs. — Gould : Birds of Australia {184S) ; 



also Handbook, vol. i., p. 547 (1865) ; North : Austn. Mus. 



Cat., p. 217 (i88q); Campbell: Proc. Austn. Assoc, vol. vii., 



p. 650 (1808). 



Geographical Distrihiition. — Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria 

 and South Australia. 



Nest. — Large, open, deep, solidly built ; composed of strips of string}'- 

 bark ; sometimes cocoons and string gathered near habitations are 

 added ; inside lined with a good supply of grass ; usually suspended or 

 stitched, as it were, by the rim to the forked branchlets of a pendulous 

 limb of a eucAl3rpt, in forest or open forest country. Dimensions over 

 all, 5 to 7 inches by 3 to 4 inches in depth ; egg ca^'ity, 4 to 5^ inches 

 across by 2 to 2^ inches deep. 



Eggs. — Chitch, three usually, but sometimes four to five ; oval 

 or pointed oval in form ; texture fine ; surface glossy ; colour, 

 pale-salmon or yellowish-buff, indistinctly marked with dull-chestnut, 

 and dull-purplish spots, especially round the apex. Dimensions in 

 inches of a pair taken in Victoria: (1) 1-3 x -89, (1) 1-3 x -88; of a 

 Queensland set : (1) 1-26 x -86, (2) 1-25 x -87, (3) 1-23 x -87, (4) M7x-86. 

 (Plate 15.) 



