80 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



Ptilotis flavescens, Gould, Yellow-tinted Honey-eater. 



Description of Nest. — Considering the size of the bird, the nest 

 is small. The form is cup-shaped, made of fine grass and narrow 

 strips of bark, with small portions of wire and spider's nest 

 material placed externally. Within the bowl is a slight and rough 

 lining of bark. Dimensions. — Breadth of whole structure, 2.25 

 inches; depth, 1.5 inches; inner diameter, 1.6 inches; depth of 

 cavity, 1.35 inches. The position of the nest was some eight feet 

 from the ground, and suspended from the branch of a eucalypt. 



MiRAFRA wooDWARDi, Milligau, Rufous Bush-Lark. 



This bird is comparatively new to science, having been 

 described by Mr. Milligan before this Club in jMay last ( FicL 

 Nat. xviii., p. 25.) 



Description of Nest. — A rounded structure of grass, placed in a 

 slight excavation in the ground under a tussock of Mitchell grass, 

 and having a small bank raised round it. Mr. Roger's diagram 

 shows a hood above the level of the ground-line, which partly 

 screened the eggs from view. The material was broad blades of 

 grass, with a lining of finer grass. Dimensions. — External, 6.5 

 inches by 4.5 inches, with a depth of 3.5 inches ; internal, 3.25 

 by 3 inches ; depth, 2.25 inches. 



Description of Eggx. — General appearance greyish-brown spots 

 and short streaks numerously placed upon the whole surface of a 

 greyish-white ground colour, while fainter than the greyish-brown 

 spots, and appearing as if below tiiem are faint lilac-grey spots. 

 The texture of the shell is glossy. Set a. — Three in number, 

 collected loth February, 1901. Axis, 0.75 inch; diameter, 0.55 

 inch. The three eggs vary in the disposition of the spots and 

 streaks, and one has a zone of the same coloured spots round the 

 broader end ; the second has its spots more finely shown, and 

 greyer than those of the third, which are browner and heavier. 

 Set 6. — Two in number, collected nth February, 1901. Axis, 

 0.8 inch ; diameter, 0.55 inch, similar to those of set a, but having 

 a brown ground colour. 



Locality. — Myroondah homestead, Firtzroy River, North-West 

 Australia. 



A TRIP TO THE MALLEE AND THE GRAMPIANS. 

 By D. Best. 



{Read bej'ure the Field Naturalists'' Club of Victoria, lltJt March, 1901.) 



Having secured two other well-known collectors — Messrs. C. 

 Walter and C. French, jun. — as companions for a holiday trip, we 

 decided to take advantage of the opportunity offered by a farmers' 



