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White-backed Magpies 

 Black- 

 Japanese Hawfinches 

 Yellow-ruuiped Tit 

 Coach-whip Bird 

 King Parrakeets 



Red-rnnip ,, 



Crimson-wing ,, 

 Barnard's ,, 



Mealy Rosella ,, 

 Yellow-collared ,, 

 Blue Bonnet ,, 



Stanley ,, 



Black-tailed 

 Pileated 



Bleeding-heart Pigeons 

 Stone Plovers 



Wattled 



Black -breasted ,, 

 Laughing Kingfisher 

 Buff- „ 



Leache's ,, 



Sacred ' ,, 



Tasnianian Native hen 

 Blue Coots 

 Pectoral Rail 

 Varied Ilemipodes 

 Pied Grallinas 

 Black Water Hen 

 Green ,, ,, 



and Owls, Kagles, Cranes, Ibises, Ducks, Geese, Plovers, Pelicans, etc. 



The above series, contains many rarities, but space will only permit 

 a passing notice of a portion of them, and naturally of those species which 

 appealed most to the writer. They were brought over under the personal 

 superiiitendance of Mr. D. Seth-Suiith, the able Editor of the Avicultural 

 Magazine, who is to be congratulated upon the excellent condition in 

 which both birds and animals have arrived. 



NEW HOLLAND HONEYEATER {Mdiomis novce-hollandiee) : 



An account of the Sombre Honeyeaters appeared in our last issue, and with 

 this series have come to hand quite a number of these interesting birds, most 

 of which are quite new to aviculture, some being actual first importations. 

 From Gould's Birds of Australia we gather it is one of the most abundant 

 and familiar birds of N.S. Wales, Tasmania and S. Australia. It frequents 

 the gardens of the settlers, and annually breeds among their shrubs and 

 flowering plants. It has a beautiful and striking appearance as it indulges 

 in its quick jumping flight from shrub to shrub. Its notes are loud, shrill, 

 liquid and also very monotonous; but up to the present these have not been 

 much indulged in. Its food in a state of nature consists of pollen and 

 nectar of flowers, fruit and insects. In captivity they appear to do well on 

 insectile mixture, fruit, milksop and insects. Its eggs are two or three in 

 number, pale buff in colour and spotted and lined with chestnut-brown. 

 There are two or three broods in the year; the nest is easily found, being 

 placed in any low or open bush. The sexes are recorded as being alike 

 in colour. Description : Top of head and cheeks black, with fine white 

 baud round base of upper mandible; two facial streaks white, which is also 

 the colour of a tuft of feathers behind the ear-coverts ; upper surface black, 

 washed with brown on the rump ; wings black, tinged with brown with 

 outer edges of the quills bright yellow, merging into whitish near the tips; 

 the tail is also black with a brownish tinge, with the outer bases margined 



