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with biigbt yellow ; the under surface is white with broad black striations; 

 bill, legs and feet black ; irides white. A pleasing and beautiful species, 

 with their attitudes and movements very much in keeping with those 

 ascribed to them in a state of nature. 



WARTY- FAC E D HONEY EAT E R {Meliphaga phrygia) : A very 

 beautiful species, which ranges over S. Australia to N.S. Wales. Unlike the 

 preceding species it is found only on the tops of the tallest trees, where 

 Gould states it reigned supreme and was the most pugnacious bird he ever 

 saw, buffeting and driving every other bird from its immediate neighbour- 

 hood. Gould also states that it largely depends for its sustenance upon the 

 flowers of the Eucalypti. The nest, usually placed in the overhanging branch 

 of a Eucalyptus, is cup-shaped, constructed of fine grasses and lined with 

 wool and hair. The eggs are two in number, yellowish-buff in colour, 

 spotted and blotched with rufous and purplish grey. I have mislaid the 

 notes I made referring to this species, so quote Gould's description in 



full :— 



"Head, neck, upper part of back, chin, and chest black ; scapularies black, broadly 

 "margined with pale yellow; lower part of the back black, margined with yellowish 

 " white ; upper tail coverts like the scapularies ; wings black, the coverts margined with 

 "yellow; spurious wing yellow; primaries black, with an oblong stripe of yellow 

 " occupying the margin of the outer and a portion of the inner web next the quill, which 

 "is black; secondaries black, broadly margined on the outer web with yellow; under 

 " surface black, with an arrow-shaped mark of yellowish white near the extremity of 

 "each feather ; two centre tail-feathers black, slightly tipped with yellow; the remainder 

 " black at the base, and yellow for the remainder of their length, the black decreasing 

 "and the yellow increasing as the feathers recede from the two central ones; irides 

 " reddish brown ; bill black; feet blackish brown; warty excrescences covering the face 

 "dirty yellowish white. 



" The sexes are similar in colouring, but the female is much smaller than the male, 

 " and the young are destitute of the warty excrescences on the face, that part being 

 "partially clothed with feathers." 



SPINY-CHEEKED HONEYEATER {Acanthogenys rufigulatis): 

 This is a most interesting species, differing widely from the others described 

 in these notes, in the spines which adorns the sides of its face. Its contour 

 and deportment is both elegant and graceful. 



WHITE-EYEBROWED SPINE-BILLED HON EYEATER {Acan- 

 thorhynches superciliosus): I fear my description is somewhat incomplete, 

 but this can be rectified in a later notice. Head, upper surface and wings, 

 greyish-brown; which is also the colour of the tail with the exception of 

 the outer feathers which are black — most of the feathers have white tips ; 

 sides of face brownish-black, with two white streaks one above and one 

 below the eye; sides of neck light chestnut-brown; throat rich golden- 

 chestnut, bounded with a crescentic band of white, followed with a similar 

 baud of black; abdomen and ventral region light brown, washed with 

 greyish ; bill black ; legs and feet blackish-brown. It is over five inches in 

 length of which the tail measures barely half. 



