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Mr. 1 1. G. LJarnard sent me the following; notes : — " Ptilotis jiligti'a was fairly numerous about 

 the edges of the scrubs at Cape \'ork. 1 found three nests, one of which contained two young 

 birds, the second was building, but was subsequently deserted before the eggs were laid, and the 

 third, which was built in a Mango tree, contained two fresh eggs. The eggs much resembled 

 those of the Garrulous Honey-eater, being finely frecMed all over with pink spots. I afterwards 

 saw a pair taken by Mr. \V. McLennan, which were totally different to the ones obtained by 

 me, so much so 1 could hardly believe they belonged to the same species. The nests, which 

 were suspended from a fork, were large and Inilky." 



Dr. W. Macgillivray has forwarded the following notes received from Mr. W. McLennan, 

 relative to linding the nest and eggs of this species at Cape York ; — " On the 7th January, 

 igii, I went down to the Mangroves and found a nest of Xcuithofis jiligcrii being built. Six days 

 later I again went to loolc at the same nest, and found it finished and containing two eggs. I 

 shot the bird." 



The eggs are two in number for a sitting, oval in form, the shell being close-grained, smooth 

 and slightly lustrous. They are of a l^eshy-white ground colour, over which is sprinkled very 

 distinct rounded dots and spots of dark purplish-red, intermingled with a few of a slightly fainter 

 hue, the markings predominating and being larger on the thicker end, where some are conlluent, 

 forming here and there very small irregular-shaped confluent patches, and where also a few 

 small underlying markings of purplish-f^rey appear. They measure: — Length (A) i'05 x 0-67 

 inches; (B) 1-05 x 0-67 inches. These eggs closely resemble those of a variety of the Yellow- 

 faced Honey-eater ( PtHotis chrysops), but are slightly larger. 



Ptilotis fasciogularis. 



S C .4 L Y - ']' H R (> .\T E D II N E Y - E A T E R . 



Pli/utis fasciiyularis, Gould, Proc. Zool 80c., 1851, p. 285; iiL, Hand bk. Bds. Austr., Vol. 1 , p. 

 507 (18G5) ; ill, Bds. Austr., fol. Vol. Suppl., pi. 40 (ISGO) ; Gadow, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., 

 Vol. IX., p. 240 (18S4). 



Plilutis /'asriiyularis, Sharpe, Hand-I. Bds., Vol. V,, p. 82 (1909). 



Adult MALK. — General colour above hroicn, aliylillij iims/ied tvitlt olire, the feaf/iers 0/ the //end 

 ami lilndiieck havhig darker brotvn centres ; upper >viiic/-cnverti< like the back : quills and tail-feathers 

 bruivn, margined on their outer ivebs 7vith olive-yellow ; lores aiid a broad utreak throiiy/t the eye and 

 contianing doivii the sides of the neck blackish-browu, tlie feathers immediately behind the eye having 

 a leaden- sheen ; ear-curerts bright ye.lloiv, followed by a small tuft of n'hite plumes, and then by a 

 patch of yellowish-ivhife ; featliers of the cheeks, chin and throat brownis/i-bbick, margined around the 

 tips ivitJi pale yellow, giving these parts a scaly appearaiice ; remainder of t/ie imder surface dingy- 

 ivhile, each feather hariny a broivn central streak, broader 0)t the fore-tieck, n-liere iu somi: specimens 

 it occupies almost, or i/uite, the entire feather — narrower on the abdomen, vent and under tail -coverts ; 

 thighs pale buffy-bronni. Total length /'•,'J inches, wing o-75, tail 3'4, bill 0'05, tarsus 1. 



Adult fkmalk. — Similar in plumage to the male. 



Distvibution. — South-eastern (Queensland. 

 ^I^Hli vernacular name of I'asciated Honey-eater was applied by (jould to Glycyphila 

 -L fasciata, who described it in the " Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London," in 

 1842, and figured it in his "Birds of Australia" in 1848. Subsequently he used the same 

 vernacular name for Ptilotis fasciogularis, described by him in the " Proceedings of the Zoological 

 Society of London," in 1851, and figured in his " Supplement to the Birds of Australia," in 1869. 

 I have retained the name of Fasciated Honey-eater for Glycyphila fasciata, not alone that it was 



