656 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant on a 



I am inclined to agree with Mr. Campbell \_cf. Nests & 

 Eggs Austr. B. p. 405 (1901)] and to think that P. leila- 

 valensis North should probably be regarded as synonymous 

 with the present species, but there are no Queensland 

 specimens available for comparison with the West Australian 

 series. Mr. Mathews keeps them distinct. The figure of 

 P. carter^ given in the ' Emu/ and referred to above, repre- 

 sents the bird as having the breast bright yellow like the 

 sides of the head and throat, but this is not really the case ; 

 the chest is greyish-buff streaked with pale yellow, and the 

 rest of the under parts are of a bright cream-colour. The 

 back, too, should be browner, the rump much less bright, 

 and the tail-feathers olive, merely margined on the outer 

 web with bright olive-yellow. 



[Carter's Honey-eater was plentiful on the Gascoyne 

 lliver.— G. C. S.'\ 



Ptilotis plumula Gould. 



Ptilotis plumula Math. p. 97. 



a-f. S ? • Laverton, 16th-2Gth Oct. 



Iris dark brown ; bill black, base of the lower mandible 

 sometimes dark yellow ; legs of a light slate-colour. 



Tlie only example of the Ptilotis keartlandi of North in the 

 British Museum is a female from North-west Cape, West 

 Australia, procured by Mr. T. Carter. This species may be 

 at once distinguished from the nearly allied P. plumula by 

 the grey crown and ear-coverts. Other examples in the 

 British Museum from Derby, N.W. Australia, collected by 

 Mr. R. Hall, have been wrongly referred by Dr. Sclater to 

 P. keartlandi [c/. Bull. B. O. C. xii. p. 50 (1902)], and are 

 really referable to P. plumula. 



[The Plumed Honey-eater was plentiful around Laverton. 

 As in all the species of this genus, the males are noticeably 

 larger than the females. — G. C. /S.] 



Ptilotis ornata Gould. 



Ptilotis ornaia Math. p. 96. 



a-h. ^ Q . Crookerdine Lake, 17th-25th July. 



i-l. (J ? . Kurrawang, 8th-12th Sept. 



