160 MKLIPHAOID.*. 



and occasionally form there an ill-defined or irregular zone. Others have clusters of spots, and 

 in two specimens now before me, they run in a nearly straight line down one side of the shell. 

 A set of two taken by Mr. Edward Lord Ramsay, at Wattagoona, in October, 1887, measures: — 

 Length (A) 1-05 x 071 inches; (B) 1-07 x 073 inches. A set of three taken in the same locality 

 on the 19th November, 1889, measures: — Length (A) 0-97 x 071 inches; (6)0-96 x 071 inches; 

 (C) 0-96 X 072 inches. A set of three taken by Mr. C. E. Cowle, at Illamurta, Central Australia, 

 measures: — Length (A) o'95 x 072 inches; (B) i x 07 inches; (C) cgj x 07 inches. 



Young birds resemble the adults but the centres to the feathers on the upper parts are duller 

 in colour, rendering it more uniform; the spines are fewer and shorter on the ear-opening; the 

 throat and fore neck is paler and the remainder of the under surface is less conspicuously 

 streaked. Wing 4 inches. 



As will be seen from the preceding notes, the breeding season in Eastern and Southern 

 Australia extends over the latter half of the year, commencing early in July, Dr. A. M. iNIorgan 

 and Dr. A. Chenery, finding a nest with incubated eggs at the end of that month. In the South 

 Australian Museum, Adelaide, a nest lined with a little wool at the bottom was taken with one 

 egg, near Robe, in January, 1S97. In Western Australia Mr. C. G. Gibson noted young birds 

 at the latter end of August, and found a nest with fresh eggs, on the 24th October. Mr. Edward 

 Lord Ramsay took a nest with three fresh eggs in an Emu bush, on the 19th November, 1889, 

 at Wattagoona, near Louth, New South Wales. Mr. C. E. Cowle informs me that in Central 

 Australia, February, March and April constitutes the usual breeding season. 



Oen-U-S _A.2SrTIiOOI3:^^EI2.A., Vigors and Horsfiehl. 



Anthochcera carunculata. 



WATTLED HONEY-EATER. 

 Merops cartmculatus, Lath., Ind. Orn., Vol. I., p. 276 (1790). 

 Anthocluira carunculata, Gould, Bds. Aust, fol., Vol. IV., pi. .53 (1848); id., Handl.k. Bds. Austr., 



Vol. I,, p. 538 (1865); North, Ibis, 1906, p. 57, 

 Acanthocliiira carunculata, Gadow, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. Vol. IX., p. 263 (1881). 



Adult fikl.F. — General colour above dark grcyish-broirn, fach feather on the nape, hind neck and 

 mantle having a narrow white shaft streak, ichich tvidens out on the scapulars and feathers of the 

 back and rump into a long lanceolate white stripe: upper tail-coverts brown, with broad greyish-white 

 margins; upper wing-coverts dark brown, the lesser series with a white shaft streak, the median coverts 

 margined on the apical portion of their outer ivebs and tips n-ith greyish white, and having narroiv 

 brown shaft streaks, the greater series margined on their outer webs with greyish-white; quills blackish- 

 brown; some of the primaries narroivly edged near the middle of their outer webs with greyish-white 

 and tipj^ed ivith white, more largely on the second, third, fourth and fifth; the secondaries margined 

 with greyish-white on their outer webs, increasing in extent tozvards the innermost tvhich is margined 

 on both webs; tail feathers blackish-broivn tipped with lohile, the four central ones washed with grey, 

 which is more distinct on the basal ha'f of their outer webs; forehead and crown of the head blackish- 

 brown, the latter with narrow indistinct brown shaft streaks, those on the hinder sides of the head with 

 conspicuous tvhite shaft streaks ; lores and small feathers in front and below the eye silvery-white : ear- 

 coverts blackish-brown, tipped tvith silvery-white; feathers on the cheeks blackii-h-broiru /ri/h irhiti^h 

 centres, fleshy ivaitles behind the cheeks pinkish-red; oh the sides of the hind neck a large patch of 

 u-hity-brown feathers passing into pale greyish-brown towards their tips; chin and centre nf upper 

 throat dull greyish-hroirn, aU the fea/hers trilh broad indistinct irhitish central streaks: remainder of 



