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lover’s heart, knowing that it isa certain indication that the birds are all in the midst of their nest 
building operations, and that he can go into the bush once again and watch the work of his feathered 
friends. The specimen measures = o'g0 x 0°72. 
477 299 I WESTERN WHITE-NAPED HONEY BATER, 
Melithreptus chloropsis, Gould. 
One egg, taken from a nest by S. Hall, near Albany, West Australia, on the 27th of July, 1895. 
The nest was found containing only one egg, which was left for three days, when it was again visited, 
and the bird flew off, but still the one specimen was there. It is more pointed, and of a deeper ground 
colour than the eastern form, and measures in inches = 0°76 x 07°53. 
BROWN-HEADED HONEY EATER, 
Melithveptus brevivostris, V. and H. 
Set of 2 eggs, taken by T. A. Brittlebank at Myrniong, Victoria, on the 4th of November, 1896. 
Specimen A. measures in inches = 0°67 x 0°55. 
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479 2096 a WHITE-BROWED SPINE BILL HONEY EATER, 
Acanthorhynchus superciliosus, Gould. 
Set of 2 eggs, taken at Wallaroo, near Adelaide, South Australia, by John Laird, on the 14th of 
November, 1902. Specimen A. measures = 0°71 X 0°52. 
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SPINE BILL HONEY BATER, 
Acanthorhynchus tenuivostris, Latham. 
Set of 2 eggs, which are very large round specimens, and was taken at Bostobric, near Don Dorrigo 
Scrubs, N.S.W., by J. McEnerny, Frank and Sid. W. Jackson, on the 16th of October, 1898. The 
nest was built in an Oak tree (Casuarina). The birds are very plentiful about Sydney. Specimen A. 
measures = 0°68 x 0°55. 
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481 297 2 Set of 2 eggs, the particulars of which are the same as the last set. Date of this clutch is the 19th 
of October, 1898. This handsome bird is also well known about Sydney as the ‘‘Cobbler’s Awl,” on 
account of its long curved bill resembling that article, and I have frequently watched them extracting 
the nectar from the wild flowers, which grow in such profusion about Port Jackson, and while thus 
engaged they flutter before the plant, probing each blossom with their long bill in precisely the same 
manner as the Humming Bird and the Hawk-Moth. The nest is a small structure warmly lined with 
feathers, which curve over at the top and hide the eggs when the bird is absent. Specimen A. measures 
= 0'68 x 0°54. 
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482 360 3 BLUE-FACED HONEY EATER, 
Entomyza cyanotis, Latham. 
Beautiful set of 3 eggs, taken from an old re-lined nest of the Magpie Lark (Gradlina picata), near 
South Grafton, Clarence River, N.S.W., on the 9th of September, 1894, by Frank and Sid. W. Jackson. 
We generally found the eggs of this bird deposited in old nests of the Babbler (Pomatorhinus), situated 
at the very extremity of long horizontal limbs, and at all times very difficult to approach. We have 
never known the bird to build a nest for itself. Two eggs usually form the full sitting. Writing on 
this species recalls many pleasant reminiscences of my earlier egg collecting days in the Clarence River 
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