202 MELIPHAC.ID.E. 



A set of three taken by Mr. R. Grant, at Lithgow, on the Blue Mountahis, on the loth October, 

 1896, measures: — Length (A) 1-17 x 078 inches; (B) 1-21 x 077 inches; (C) 1-17 x 077 inches. 

 A set of three taken in the neighbourhood of Hobart, Tasmania, measures: — Length (A) 1-02 

 X 077 inches; (B) 1-05 x o'8 inches; (C) i-o8 x o-8 inclies. 



Ill the northern coastal districts of New South Wales this species is an early breeder, 

 Mr. G. Savidge noted it building in June, and has taken eggs on the 4th, 17th, and 27th July, 

 and has seen nests with young during that month. From Blacktown, which is twenty-one 

 miles west of Sydney, to Dubbo, two hundred and eighty-three miles inland, nests with eggs 

 are more comnion from August to the end of October, although in the former district Mr. S. 

 W. Moore obtained a nest with three fresh eggs on the 26th June, 1896. At Roseville I saw- 

 fledgelings being fed by the parents in the middle of January. At Yendon and Western Port, 

 Victoria, I found nests with eggs plentiful in September and October. From the Dawson 

 River District, Queensland, I received sets taken by Mr. H. G. Barnard, on the 6th August, 

 25th September, and the 23rd October, 1892. In Tasmania Mr. E. D. Atkinson informs me 

 that his brother, the Rev. H. D. Atkinson, has found nests with eggs from the 28th September 

 to the gth November. Mr. R. N. Atkinson informs me that in company with his cousin, the 

 Rev. H. B. Atkinson, a nest was found on the 8th November, igo6, at Evandale, Tasmania, 

 containing the unusual number of si.x eggs, which were fresh; another nest contained four, two 

 of the eggs being of the average size, and two quite one-third smaller. 



Myzantha flavigula. 



YELLOW-THROATED JIIXEE. 

 Myzantha flaviyula, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc, 18.39, p. \ii ; id., Bds. Austr., foL, Vol. IV., pi. 79 (1848); 



id., Handbk. Bds. Austr., Vol. I., p. .S78 (1865). 

 Manorhina flavigula, Gadow, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., Vol. IX., p. 261 (1884). 



Adult male — General colour above liglit hronndslt-grey, the feathers on the hind neck darker 

 brown toivards the tips and having a subterminal whitish cross-bar, some feathers on the back having 

 darker brown centres/ rump and some of the longer upper tail-coverts white; lesser and median upper 

 wing-coverts like the back tvith darker broion centres, the greater coverts brown on their inner webs, 

 greyish-broivn on their outer webs, tvhich are externally ivashed with bright olive-yellow ; quills brown, 

 the innertnost secondaries greyish-broivn, all but the latter and the outermost primaries externally 

 margined with bright olive-yellow; tail-feathers dark brorvn externally margined with olive-yellow, 

 the tips white tvith a pale broivnish wash, which is more conspicuous on the outer loebs; forehead 

 and sinciput dull olive-yellow ; lores, a narroiv ring around the eys and feathers immediately 

 beloiv the bare space beneath the eye blackish, passing into a silvery-grey ivith blackish centres on the 

 ear-coverts; cheeks white separated from the blackish feathers above on the anterior portion by a line 

 of bright yellow feathers ; chin and fore part of cheeks ivashed with bright yellow, centre of the throat 

 greyish- ivhite, sides of the throat bare; fore neck and upper breast greyish-ivhite with a submarginal 

 brown bar attd a indistinct whitish tip to most of the feathers, those on the sides of the fore neck being 

 tipped with light gamboge-yellow, forming there a more or less well defined crescentic patch; remainder 

 of the under surface and under tail-coverts ivhite; bill and bare space behind and beneath the eye 

 bright yellow; legs and feet yellow, darker in front; iris liglu brown. Total length in the Jlcsh 10 

 inches, wing 5-Jf, tail 4-'6, bill 0'6o, tarsus PI. 



Adult fem.^LE — Siinilur in jihnunije to tin; inah' hut smaller. M'ing .7 inches. 



Distribution — Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia, Central Australia, Western 

 Australia. 



