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and very slightly glossy. They vary from pale salmon-pink to 

 salmon-buif, spotted, almost cncirely at the broad end where the 

 markings form an imperfect zoue or cap, with chestnut or purplish- 

 red and underlying lavender or lilac-red. They measure from 

 •65 to '8 in length, and from -53 to -64 in breadth. 



1. West Australia. Gould Coll. 

 3. West Australia, 26th Oct. (G. J". Gould Coll. 



Anffcts). 



2. Queensland. Gnuld Coll. 



1. New South Wales (BracTce/tbridi/e). Crowley Bequest. 



2. Dobroyd, N. S. Wales (E. P. Ram- Crowley Becpiest. 



say : Tristram Coll.). 



3. New" South Wales {E. P. Ramsay). Gould Coll. 



2. Victoria. Govt, of Victoria [P.]. 



3. Victoria. Govt, of Victoria [P.I. 



2. Victoria. Govt, of Victoria [P.]. 



3. Victoria. Govt, of Victoria [P.J. 

 2. Hastings, Western Point, Victoria, Crowley Bequest. 



15th October (.4. J. North). 



Melithreptes albigularis, Gould. 



Meliphaga albogulaiis, Thien. Fortpjlanz. ges. Vdy. tab. xvi. fig. 17 



(1845-64). 

 Melithreptus albogularis, Gould, Ilandb. Birds Austr. i. p. 571 (1865). 

 Melithreptus albigularis, Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. ix. p. 205 (1884) ; 



North, Nests Sr Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 228 (1 889) ; Le Souef, Ibis, 



1900, p. 4G3. 

 Melithreptus lunul.atus albigularis, Campbell, Nests >§• Eggs Austr. Birds, 



i. p. 362 (1901). 

 Melithreptes albigularis, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 64 (190G). 



The eggs of the White-throated Honey-eater are of a narrow 

 and blunt oval shape, and entirely devoid of gloss. They are 

 pinkish-white, rather thickly spotted with chestnut, lilac-red, and 

 lavender. Two examples measure respectively : "85 by "53 ; 

 •72 by -52. 



2. Port Essington, Australia (TnVso??). Gould Coll. 



Melithreptes gularis, Gould. 



Melithreptus gularis, Gould, Ilandb. Birds Austr. i. p. 666 (1866) ; 

 Ramsay, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 697 ; Gadoiv, Cut. Birds B. M. ix. p. 205 

 (1884) ; North, NedsSf- Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 226 (1889) ; Caiiqiicll, 

 Nests ^ Eggs Austr. Birds, i. p. 363 (1901). 



Melithreptes gularis, Shar^ye, Hand-l. v. p. 65 (1906). 



The eggs of the Elack-throated Honey-eater are of an elliptical 

 shape and slightly glossy. They resemble the eggs of AI. atrieapillus. 

 Two examples measure respectively : -88 by -61 ; ^77 by '59. 



2. New South Wales {G. Bennett). Gould Coll. 



1. Adelaide, S. Australia, September Crowley Bequest. 

 (J. W. Mellor). 



