614 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION D. 
Breeding season includes the months from the end of July or 
the beginning of August to December. Several clutches of these 
eggs were taken in West Australia by the Calvert Expedition 
during August, 1896. Occasionally they were the only kinds 
observed on the sandhills. 
PTILOTIS VERSICOLOR, Gould. 
“ Varied Honey-eater.” 
Figure.—Gould, Bds. of Australia, fol., vol. iv, pl. 34. 
Reference.—Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., vol. ix, p. 234. 
Geographical Distribution.— North Queenslandand New Guinea. 
Nest and Eggs.—Unknown. 
Observations._-The Varied Honey-eater is one of the finest 
species of its family. Little is known of its economy. Dr. Ramsay’s 
P. Macleayana is synonymous with it. 
PriLnoTis cHRysops, Latham. 
* Yellow-faced Honey-eater.” 
Figure.—Gould, Bds. of Australia, fol., vol. iv, pl. 45. 
Reference. —Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., vol. ix, p. 236. 
Previous Descriptions of Eggs.—Gould, Bds. of Austr. (1848), 
also Hdbk., vol. ip. 521 (1865). North, Cat. Nests and Eggs 
Austn. Mus., p. 208 (1889). 
Geographical Distribution. — Queensland, New South Wales, 
Victoria, and South Australia. 
WVest.—Hlegant, cup-shaped, deep with swollen sides ; somewhat 
frailly constructed of fine curly pieces of beautiful moss inter- 
mingled with spiders’ web, sometimes with fine shreds of bark 
added ; inside lined with very fine light-coloured rootlets and 
pieces of grass; usually situated in a low bush, particularly a 
Melaleuca or Leptospermum overhanging a stream, or sometimes 
sewn, as it were, by the rim with cobweb to a fern (bracken) 
frond. Dimensions over all 3 inches by 24 inches in depth; egg 
cavity 2 inches across by 2 inches deep. 
Eggs.—Clutch, 2-3 ; lengthened in form ; texture fine ; surface 
slightly glossy ; colour, light reddish or pinkish-buff, marked and 
freckled all over, and in a confluent patch round the apex, with 
rich reddish-chestnut and purplish-grey ; the eggs are singular for 
this genus, and somewhat resemble those of the Minah (Myzantha 
garrula) in miniature. However, some examples are whiter in 
the ground colour, with round spots about the apex. Dimensions 
of a clutch in parts of an inch: (1) *82 x ‘57; (2) -74 x °4. 
Observations.—This cheerful Yellow-faced Honey-eater, as Gould 
states, may be regarded as a common species, and inhabits all the 
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