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tree to tree as if engaged in a partial migration from one part of 
the country to another, or in search of a more abundant supply 
of food.” 
I myself have witnessed this once at Doncaster, Victoria, 2nd 
November, 1886, when a flock of about fifty swept past me across 
a valley* 
Mr. Hermann Lau writes :—‘ Mock Regent-bird. I first saw 
it at Goulburn (N.S.W.) 1855; then again at Pike’s Creek, 
Queensland, 20 miles south-west of Warren. It only appears in 
numbers now and again. The site of its big nest is at about the 
height of 20 feet in a tree, and always near a thick stem ora 
few sprouting shoots. It is roughly made of coarse dry grass, 
lined with rootlets and animal hair. Deposits two or three eggs. 
Took nest, Pike’s Creek, October, 1869.” 
Breeding month, end cf September to December. 
Pritotis NotTaTa, Gould. 
“ Yellow-spotted Honey-eater.” 
Figwre.—Gould, Bds. of Australia, fol. sup. pl. 41. 
feference.—Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., ix, p. 227. 
Previous Description of Hggs.—North, P.L.8.N.8.W., 2nd ser., 
vol. ix, p. 39 (1894). 
Geographical Distribution.—Northern Territory and North 
Queensland ; also New Guinea. 
Nest.—Cup-shaped, deep ; constructed of fibre coated with large 
pieces of paper-like Melaleuca bark; inside, chiefly the bottom, 
lined with a white cottony substance ; placed in the forked branch 
usually of a low bush, but occasionally at the heist of 30 feet 
from the ground, in scrub. Dimensions over all, 3}—4 in. x 13-3 
in. in depth; egg cavity, 24-3 in. across by 14-2 in. deep. 
Eggs.—Clutch 2, rarely 3; oval, lengthened and compressed 
towards one end ; texture exceedingly fine ; ; surface very glossy ; 
colour, pearly white, with a few pronounced or bold spots and 
roundish blotches of deep purplish-brown about the apex. Most 
resemble the eggs of the Yellow-eared Honey-eater (P. lewini). 
Dimensious, a clutch in parts of an inch, (1) ‘9 x °64; (2) 
88 x °63. 
Observations.—This Honey-eater is also known as P. analoga 
(Reichenbach), and a dozen other synonyms; but for the sake of 
simplicity I prefer to retain Gould’s name, P. notata, which 
appears under a fine picture of the bird in his folio supplement. 
The Yellow-spotted Honey-eater may be said to be the northern 
and smaller representative of the Yellow-eared (P. lewinz). Gould 
says Gilbert collected a bird very nearly allied, if not the Yellow- 
* One of Mr. C. C. Brittlebank’s notes reads: ‘‘1st April, 1896. Flocks of Warty-faced 
Honey-eaters, thirty or forty birds in each, passed to the west about 9 a.m.” 
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