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Three adult males, one young male. Obtained in the forest 

 timber, near the Fitzroy River, on the way into Derby. It is 

 interesting to meet with a series of skins of this Honey-eater, 

 which Mr. Keartland first discovered during the visit of the 

 Horn Expedition to Central Australia in 1894. It is also re- 

 markable that Mr. Cairn, or the late Mr. Bowyer-Bower, did not 

 meet with this species durin<^' the time they made large collections 

 in the vicinity of Derby in 1886. Two of the adult specimens 

 have the basal portion of the lower mandible yellow ; wing, 3 

 inches, to 3 '3. The young male is slightly duller in plumage 

 than the adult, and the patch of yellow feathers below the ear- 

 coverts is not so bright and well-defined ; wing, 2*8 inches. 



[On October 5 several of these birds were found far in the 

 desert, south of Separation Well, in a small patch of scattered 

 mallee. They were afterwards found at Gilgelly Creek and 

 Derby. Probably the fact that so many of the trees w^ere just 

 out in blossom during the time of our visit at the end of April 

 may account for their presence in such numbers.] 



No. 42. Stomiopera unicolor (Uniform-coloured Honey-eater). 



F tilotis unicolo7\ Gou\d, Pioc. Zool. Soc, (1842), p. 136; id.j 

 Bds. Austr., fol., vol. IV., pi. 46 (1848) ; Gadow, Cat. Bds. Brit. 

 Mus., vol. IX., p. 249 (1884); Sharpe, Rep. Voy. Alert., p, 20 

 (1884). 



Stomiopera unicolor, Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.W., vol. 

 I., 2nd series, p. 1,092 (1886). 



Four adult males Camp about five miles from the junction of 

 the Fitzroy and Margaret Rivers. Similar to specimens from 

 Northern Australia, 



[The loud notes of this bird were only heard amongst the man- 

 groves near the Fitzroy River. They seem to delight in bathing, 

 and when not so engaged may be seen actively searching for 

 insects or lioney amongst the dense undergrowth which skirts the 

 river. The sexes are alike in plumage.] 



No. 43. Philemon sordidus (Northern Friar Bird). 



Trojndorhynchus sordidus, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol., vol. L, 

 introd., p. 58 (1848V 



Philemon sordidus, Gadow, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., vol. IX., p. 

 277 (1884); Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S W., vol. L, 2nd 

 series, p. 1,092 (1886); North, Nests and Eggs Austr. Bds., p. 

 219, pi. 12, fig. 3 (1889). 



Fhilefnon sp. (?) Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.W., vol. I., 

 2nd series, p. 169 (1887). 



Philemo7h juv [sp. ?), Ramsay, op. cit., vol. II., 2nd series, p. 

 169 (1887). 



