114 WHITE, Trip to Cape York Pemnsida. RfS" 



After rigging shearlegs to another nest 17 feet high, I sat on top 

 with the camera and waited patiently. After a while the bird re- 

 turned and snuggled down on the eggs. I had to touch her with my 

 finger to make her move off so that I could get a picture of her re- 

 turning. Nest, a frail cup-shaped structure composed of fine strips 

 of bark and grass lightly bound with web and cocoon-silk, and lined 

 with very fine seed-tops of dry grass; measurements, 2 in. by 2 in.; 

 inside, IJ in. by \'i in. deep. 



Myzomela obscura. Dusky Honey-eater. — Noted. 

 Conopcphila albogularis. Rufous-breasted Honey-eater. — Numerous. 

 Meliphaga analoga. Yellow-spotted Honey-eater.— Heard calling 

 in the scrubs. 



*MeIiphaga versicolor. Mangrove Honey-eater. — Noted. 



Glychichaera claudi. Green Honey-eater. — This little and rare bird 

 was noted. 



Meliphaga gracilis. Lesser Yellow-spotted Honey-eater. — Noted. 

 *MeIiphaga flava. Yellow Honey-eater. — I saw a bird building in a 

 mango tree and another in a paperbark. 



Xanthotis flaviventris (M / filigerd) Streak-naped Honey-eater. — 

 Noted in the scrubs. 



*Trichodere cockerelli. White-streaked Honey-eater. — Tommy 

 found a nest containing two eggs situated 2 ft. 6 in. from the ground 

 in a seedling paperbark. Nest, a frail, deep, cup-shaped stnicture 

 suspended by the rim; composed of very fine rootlets lightly bound 

 with web; lined with very fine grass. Measurements: outside, 2ii' in. 

 by 3 in. deep; inside, li in. by 2 in. deep. 



Glyciphila fasciata. White-breasted Honey-eater. — Noted. 



*Glyciphilia modesta. Brown-backed Honey-eater. — A nest was 

 found suspended from small twigs, and composed of small pieces and 

 strips of paperbark bound with web anjl cocoons, lined with soft pieces 

 of paperbark. Measurements: overall, 7 in. by 3 in. diameter; en- 

 trance almost concealed by overhanging hood, 1.', in. diameter; inside, 

 lif in. by 2 in. deep; eggs, two. 



Stigmatops indistincta (S. /. ocularis). Least Honey-eater. — Noted. 



*Entomyzon cyanotis {E. c. hartcrti). Northern Blue-faced Honey- 

 eater.— Plentiful. Nests frequently noted in varying situations, in 

 Pandanus palms, paperbarks; sometimes in old Babblers' nests, and 

 once in a strange situation, viz., on wallplate under the eaves of the 

 court house. Flushing a bird from a Babbler's nest, I found two eggs 

 of the Honey-eater and one of the Babbler, the former having taken 

 possession without building a nest of its own inside, which it usually 

 does. In another such domicile I noted seven eggs. The Honey-eater 

 used strips of paperbark for lining, which were mixed in with the 

 messmate bark used by the Babbler. 



Passing a Pandanus, where I had noted a Blue-faced Honey-eater's 

 nest with three young just hatched, two eggs chipping and one addled 

 2^K, the bird flushed from the same nest, which contained three fresh 

 2ggs. 



25/10/21.— £ cyanotis flushed from Babbler's nest 30 feet from 

 ground in ironbark. Nest contained four eggs of two distinct types. 



8/5/22. — Nest of E. cyanotis. 25 feet from ground, in nest of Mag- 

 pie-Lark; four young just hatched. 



•Philemon argenticeps. Silvery-crowned Friar-Bird.— Many nests 

 noted; 2 to 3 eggs in each. One set was broken; eggs very pale 

 salmon pink, with a few faint bluish spots about the larger end. 



