NESTS AND EGGS OF HONEY-EATERS. 653 
eggs (there were originally five), found their way into my collection. 
The nest seemed to have been attached to mangroves. 
Mr. Harry Barnard, while collecting at Cape York, found many 
nests with beautiful sets of eggs during the months of November, 
December, and January. 
PHILEMON CITREOGULARIS, Gould. 
Yellow-throated Friar-bird. 
Figure.—Gould, Bds. of Australia, fol., vol. iv, pl. 60. 
Reference.—Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., vol. ix, p. 277. 
Previous Descriptions of Eqgs.—Campbell, Southern Science 
Record (1883). North, Cat. Nests and Eggs, Austn. Mus., p. 219 
(1889). 
Geographical Distribution.—N orthern Territory (?), Queensland, 
New South Wales, Victoria, South and West Australia. 
Nest. haped ; loosely constructed ; composed of grasses 
(dry and green), fine twigs, wool, cocoons, &e. ; Inside lined with 
fine, dry grass ; usually suspended from a pendulous branch of a 
Eucalypt, sometimes near or overhanging water, in open forest. 
Dimensions over all, 5 inches by 6 inches in depth; egg cavity, 
3 inches across by 2? inches deep. 
£9. —Clutch, 3-4, one instance 5 ; nearly oval, slightly com- 
pressed towards one ‘end ; texture fine ; slight trace of gloss on 
surface ; colour, pinkish or purplish- buff indistinctly smudged or 
blotched with umber, and chiefly light purplish-brown. Dimensions 
in inches of two from a clutch taken in Riverina: (1) b09) 
77; (2) 1:07 x ‘76. <A clutch of three from Central Queensland 
are of a pinker coloured buff, and more distinctly blotched and 
spotted with ene or reddish-brown and purplish-brown—(1) 
Pie Pore (ay OF POGOe Osx “15. 
Observations._-This smaller and plain-coloured Friar-bird is a 
dweller of almost the whole of the great intericr tract of Australia 
suited to its habits, except, perhaps, west and north-west. 
My introduction to this species was in November, 1877, at 
Wentworth, on the Darling River, where the birds, with chattering 
voices, were ravishing the bell-shaped flowers of imported trees 
(Lagunaria) that bordered the shrubs. On the Prince of Wales’ 
Birthday, when a picnic of the towns-folk was being held up the 
river, having proceeded thither by steamboat, I found my “record ” 
nest within reach in a bough overhanging the river-bed. The 
eggs, however, were much incubated. Another nest I found sub- 
sequently was placed in a low “ Box” (Hucalypt) and contained 
a lovely fresh set of three richly coloured eggs. 
From Mr. Hermann Lau’s, MS., I take “ Mocking-bird (P. 
citreogularis). It is not unlike the ordinary species with the 
exception of being smaller and having no protuberance over the 
