634 Messrs. 11, C. Robinson and W. S. Laverock on 



and reaches its northern limit at Cooktown, where one of us 

 (II. C. Tl.) obtained two specimens in Au^. 1896. 



55. tPTiLOTis FRENATA (Ramsay) ; Gadow, t. c. p. 231. 

 Three specimens were secured on Mount Bellendcu Ker at 



an altitude of over 2000 feet. 



" Plentiful ; occurring either in pairs or flocks, especially 

 on trees in bloom, feeding on the nectar. Iris slatish blue; 

 feet slate ; bill black_, the basal portion yellow ; periocular 

 skin whitish '' [Olive). 



56. fGLYCiPHiLA MODESTA G. R. Gr. ; GadoWj t. c. p. 215. 

 A pair of this sombre-coloured little bird, with their nest 



and eggs, were secured on Nov. 1st. ''Iris, feet, and bill 

 reddish brown " [Olive). 



The nest, which is a slightly elongated purse-s}iaped 

 structure, was found suspended to the terminal twigs of a 

 small Eucalyptus on the banks of a creek, about five feet 

 above the water. It is almost entirely composed of the 

 papery bark of the Ti tree, and is furnished with a flat 

 covering or dome woven into the leaves of the Eucalyptus to 

 which it is attached. Two fresh eggs were in the nest : they 

 are slightly elongated ovals, somewhat pointed at one end, of 

 a pearly white with a few scattered spots of a dull blackish 

 brown, which form an ill-defined zone at the larger end, the 

 spots being very much larger on one egg than the other. 

 They measure: A 16-5 x 12 mm., B 17x 13 mm. A single 

 egg obtained on the same date has the markings more evenly 

 distributed, and measures 17 x 13 mm. 



57. fPHiLEMON BUCEROiDES Swaiusou; Gadow,t. c. p. 272. 

 "Iris brown; feet slatish green; bill black; bare parts 



blacl^^' [Olive). 



58. fPniLEMON ciTREOGULARis (Gould) ; Gadow, t. c. 

 p. 277. 



A single specimen from Mount Sapphiri, marked female and 

 apparently young, as it has the chin and throat yellow, though 

 the peculiar whitish spatulate tips to the breast-feathers, 

 usually a sign of maturity, are well developed. '' Iris brown ; 

 feet slate; bill black ; bare parts slate '^ [Olive). 



