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Climacteris picumnds. 



Browu Tree-creeper. 



Climacteris picunmus (Temm.), Vig. and Horsf., Traus. Linn. 

 Soc, XV., p. 295 (1826) ; Temm., PI. Col. 281, tig. i. ; 

 North, Nests and Eggs Anstr. Bds., 2ud. ed., ii., pt. ii., 

 p. 42 (1906). 



Clii)iacteris sciuuleiis, (nee Temm.), Gould, Bds. Austr., fol., iv., 

 pi. 93 (1848) ; id., Haudbk. Bds. Austr., i., p. 598 (1865). 



Climacteris leucophoea, Gadow, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., viii., p. 

 336 (1883). 



I procured a pair of these birds passing through Willeroon 

 Station. They were the only birds of this genus observed, and 

 were precisely similar in colour, but slightly smaller than ex- 

 amples obtained in the neighbourhood of Sydney. This Ti-ee- 

 creeper has a wide range over the State, being common in the 

 coastal districts, near Sydney, and is found atBourke, over five 

 hundred miles inland. 



Ptilotis penicillata. 



White-plumed Honey-eater. 



Meliphaga peiiiciUitfa, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1836, p. 143. 



Ptilotis penicillatus, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol., iv., pi. 43 (1848). 



Ptilotis pe)ticillat((, Gould, Handbk. Bds. Austr., i., p. 519 

 (1865) ; Gadow, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., ix., p. 244 (1884) ; 

 North, Nests and Eggs Austr. Bds., 2nd. ed., ii., pt. ii., p. 

 131 (1907). 



Fairly common both at Coolabah and Brewarrina, nesting 

 in the Eucalypti in the hotel grounds at the former place, and 

 in the trees along the banks of the Darling and Barwon Rivers 

 in the lattei- locality. The well-known notes of this Honey- 

 eater, made welcome music to my eai's, and reminded me of 

 my early collecting days around Melbourne, the " Greenie," as 

 it was there, and is still called, being the most common species 

 of the Family Meliphagidfe, and its eggs dear to the heart of 

 the average nest-hunting boy. 



