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Creek, and Port Darwin by Mr. Alex. Morton while collecting on behalf of the Trustees of the 

 Australian Museum in January, I'Syg. Count Salvadori records it from Port Darwin from 

 specimens procured there by Dr. L. Loria in 1889," and from the same locality Dr. R. B. 

 Sharpe enumerates a male of this species among the list of specimens collected during the 

 Voyage of H.M.S. " Alert. "f Dr. E. Hartert records | specimens from the Victoria River, Pine 

 Creek, Brock's Creek, and the South Alligator River, all in the Northern Territory. 



Writing me from Cooktown, Queensland, in June, igoo, Mr. liertie Hislop remarks: — "I 

 have never seen such Hocks of Silvery-crowned Friar-birds as there are about here now. Their 

 clatter among the blossom of the Bloodwood trees is almost deafening. These birds generally 

 nest in broad-leaved Melaleuca trees." 



A nest in the Australian Museum collection, taken by Mr. E. Olive near Cooktown, is a 

 bowl-shaped structure externally formed of broad strips of bark, bark fibre, and spiders webs, 

 lined inside with coarse grass stalks, the rim being firmly woven over a thick forked branch. 



The eggs are two in number for a sitting, oval or elongate oval in form, in some specimens 

 the shell being opa(]ue, close-grained, smooth and as a rule almost lustreless. They vary from a 

 dull fleshy-pink to a very faint creamy-buff, with numerous indistinct spots and blotches of pale 

 red scatted over the shell, with which are intermingled similar underlying markings of dull violet- 

 grey. A set of two taken by Mr. Bertie Hislop at Marton, near Cooktown, on the 2nd December, 

 1899, measures: — Length (A) 1-14 x 0-85 inches; (B) 1-2 x o-Si inches. A set of two taken by 

 Mr. H. W. Mant at the same locality, on the 14th February, igoi, are of light chalky-pink 

 ground colour and have a few scattered and indistinct red and faint purplish -red markings 

 distributed over the shell. Length (A) 1-16 x o-.S4 inches; (B) 1-21 x 0-83 inches. A set of three 

 in Mr. C. French, Junr.'s collection taken near the Daly River, in the Northern Territory of 

 South Australia, on the 21st January, 1902, are of a pale creamy-buff ground colour, slightly 

 richer in colour on the larger end, and dotted and spotted with chestnut-red intermingled with 

 underlying markings of rich purplish-grey, predominating on the thicker end where in two 

 specimens fairly well defined zones are formed. Length (A) 1-2 x o-S inches; (B) 1-15 x o-8 

 inches; (C) ri4 x o-8 inches. A set of two received from Mr. E. A. C. Olive measure 

 alike: — Length i-ay x o-86 inches. 



Young birds resemble the adults, but all the feathers on the upper parts are margined 

 with white around their tips, the upper tail-coverts too have a slight fulvescent tinge; the 

 feathers on the sides of the neck are brown, and those on the throat dull white washed with 

 yellow, ^^'ing 5 inches. 



The breeding season commences in October and continues until the end of February. 



O-enns I=I^IIjE3v£0:tT, Vvillol. 



Philemon citreogularis. 



YELLOW-THROiTED FRIAR-BIRD. 

 Tropidor/ii/nchus citreogularis, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc, 18.36, p. 143: id., Bds. Austr., fol., Vol 



IV., pi. GO (1848); id., Handhk. Bds. Austr., Vol. I., p. 549 (1869), 

 Tropidorhynchus sordidus, Gould, Bds. Aust., fob. Vol. !,, Introd., p. Iviii. (1848). 

 PliVemon citreogularis, Gadow, Oat. Bds. Brit. Mus., Vol. IX , p. 277 (1884). 



* Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen,, Vol. 29, p. 503 (i88g). 



t Rep. Voy. H,M.S. " Alert," p. 20 (18S4). 



; Nov. Zool., Vol, XII,, p. 232 (1905). 



