86 MKLIPIIAnm.E. 



Bauhima or Eucalyptus at an altitude of about six feet, but one nest near our camp was fully twenty- 

 feet from the ground. Two or three eggs are laid for a sitting, and the breeding season com- 

 mences immediately after rain in January or February. The sexes can only be distinguished by 

 dissection and the rusty-brown on the throat of the adult is absent in the young. I saw two 

 young birds near Mr. Harris' house without any indication of the rusty-brown patch on the 

 throat, although their parents were of the usual type." 



A nest taken by Mr. Keartland near the Fitzroy River in February 1S97, is attached on 

 one side to a thin leafy twig of a species of Bauhinia. It is a deep cup-shaped structure, one side 

 of it being considerably higher than the other, and is outwardly formed of very fine bark fibre, 

 a small quantity of grass, and the outer covering of some composite plant, firmly matted and 

 held together, the inside being neatly lined with fine dried grasses. On one side it measures 

 externally four inches and a quarter in depth, on the other two-inches and a half; inside diameter 

 two inches. 



The eggs are two or three in number for a sitting and are extremely variable in size, shape, 

 disposition and colour of their markings. The most common type is elongate oval in form, 

 white, with small irregular-shaped spots and dots of rich red or pinkish-red evenly distributed 

 over the entire surface of the shell, and closely resembles the eggs oi Gaygonc alhigularis ox Malurus 

 australis. Two sets of three measure as follows: — Length (A) 0-74 x 0'5 inches; (B) 0-76 x o'5i 

 inches; (0)0-73 ^ o'5 inches; (D) 077 x 0-5 inches; (E) 078 x 0-53 inches; (F) 0-73 x 

 0-5 inches. A set of two are nearly round, and measure: — Length 0-63 x 0-53 inch; (B) 0-67 

 0-55 inch. ,\nother type has a zone on the larger end formed of large confluent dull red blotches, 

 and resembles some varieties of the eggs of Malurus lamberti or M. australis. A third has the pure 

 white ground colour sparingly spotted and dotted with purplish -black, and in some specimens 

 a few large penumbral markings of purplish-red on the thicker ends, and resembles the eggs of 

 Glycyphila modcsta ot Ephthianura albifrons. A set of two measures: — Length (A) o-68 x 0-48 

 inches; (B) 0-67 x 0-47 inches. 



A young female in the Australian Museum collection procured by the late Mr. T. H. Bowyer- 

 Bower, near Derby in 1886, resembles the adult, but is paler on the upper parts, the greater wing- 

 coverts are more strongly washed with yellow, the throat is dull white, the creamy-brown breast 

 band is very pale, and the basal half of the lower mandible is light brown. Wing 2-55 inches. 



The wing-measurement of adult males vary from 2-8 to 3 inches. 



Entomophila albigularis. 



WHITE-THROATED HOXEY-EATEK. 

 Entomophila ? albogularis, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc, 18-12, p. 137; id., Bds. Austr., fob, Vol. IV., 

 pi. 51 (1818). 



Conopop/iila albigularig, Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust. Vol. I., p. 5.3'2 (1865); Salvad., Orn. Pap. et 



Molucc, Pt. II., p. 309 (1881). 

 Entomophila albigularis, Gadow, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. Vol. IX., p 219 (1884) (part). 



Adult male. — Dlffi'i-s trnm ihr mhilt mule of Entomophila eufigularis, in hdring fhe 

 forehead, crotmi, and sides nf tlir hind, i-hri]:x. mid ear-coverts ashi/-</ri'i/; the chin and lynf re nf the 

 throat pure white ; the fore, neck and upper breast, rufous-hroicn, becomiini imieli pider mi tlie sides nf 

 the body; centre of the loioer breast, abdomen and under tail-coverts iHiite fi'md p tiiiged irith erenniip 

 brown; "bill blackish-grey; legs and feet bluish-grey iris bright reddish-bruini." (Gould). Total length 

 Jf:6 inches, wing 2-55, tail IS, bill 0'5o, tarsus 0'7. 



Adult female — Similar in jilumage to the mide. 



Distribution — Northern Territory of South Australia, New. Guinea, Aru Islands. 



