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Blacktown, 9/11/13.— Feeding three young in nest. 

 Blacktown, 27/8/16.— Two fledgelings being fed m short saphng. 

 Blacktown, 10/9/16.— New nest partly pulled to pieces l)y otlier 



birds. 

 Blacktown, 8/10/16.— Three young almost ready to leave the nest. 

 Blacktown, 25/11/16.— Three eggs and one of Pallid Cuckoo. 

 Blacktown, 1/10/17.— Nest building ; inaccessible. 

 Blacktown, 11/11/17.— Mr. H. Keane records nest with young. 

 Lakemba, 31/12/17 (9 miles south-west of Sydney).— Fully-fledged 



young being fed. 

 Lakemba, 3/8/18.— Nest getting built. 



Nest and eggs of Mellihrcptus ^ularis (two-thirds natural size). The eggs 

 are from three separate sittings, comprised of three, two, and three 

 respectively. 



PHOTO. BY r. A. OILBEUT, K.A.O.V. 



As will be seen, tlu' foregoing observations on M. gularis have 

 been recorded over the coastal and central areas of New South 

 Wales only, and it is here suggested that further data might be 

 supplied incidental to its habits and distribution in other regions 

 of Australia by ornithologists who have met with this bird, as 

 heretofore very httle reference 'has appeared in The Emu relative 

 to this species, and the want of unanimity in such an important 

 aspect as distribution is sufticient proof that a good deal more 

 can be learnt about the species. It is only by working out the 

 life-history of a species in its absolute entirety that we can hope 

 to place ornithology on a sound and unassailable foundation. 



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