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paper bark or dried grasses, matted together with small 

 spiders' cocoons or vegetable fibres, and so closely resembles 

 the branch upon which it is placed, as to render it very difficult 

 of detection ; it is usually lined with fine grasses, zamia wool, 

 the soft part of the cones of the Banksice, delicate white buds 

 of flowers, or sheep's wool collected from the bushes of the 

 sheep-runs. 



September, October, and November constitute the breeding- 

 season. The eggs, which are two in number, vary consider- 

 ably in their colouring, some being pure white without a trace 

 of spots or markings, others having a zone round the larger 

 end formed of freckled markings of light reddish brown; 

 others again are thinly sprinkled with this colour over the 

 whole of their surface, and one or two procured at Swan River 

 were bespeckled with numerous fine freckles of bluish grey ; 

 the average length of a number of eggs was eight lines by six 

 lines in breadth. 



Crown of the head, all the upper surface, wings, and tail 

 dark olive-brown, passing into yellowish brown on the rump 

 and bases of the tail-feathers ; primaries and secondaries 

 margined with wax-yellow ; immediately behind the eye a 

 very small patch of glossy brownish-yellow feathers, the 

 anterior portion of which is silvery ; throat and chest greyish 

 brown ; abdomen and under tail-coverts olive-grey ; irides 

 light red ; bill dark brown ; legs and feet bluish grey ; tarsi 

 tinged with green. 



Total length 5 J inches ; bill J ; wing 2| ; tail 2^ ; tarsi f . 



Sp. 305. STIGMATOPS SUBOCULAKIS, Gould. 



Least Honey-eater. 

 Glyciphila ? subocularis, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc, part v. p. 154. 



In the folio edition of the ' Birds of Australia ' I united 

 this bird with S. ocularis ; but upon further examination and 

 comparison I have come to the conclusion that it is different. 



