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insects. $, juvenile, irides brown, bill black, naked skin at gape pale 

 greenish-blue, legs slate. Stomach contents, honey only (26th 

 April, 191 1). ?, fledgeling, taken on 15th May, 191 1 — irides brown ; 

 bill, upper mandible dark brown, lower light brown, gape yellow ; 

 legs lead colour. Stomach contents, insects. 



Xanthotis filigera. Streak-naped Honey-eater. — Very common at 

 Cape York, in scrub, open forest, and mangroves. They are 

 silent birds, mainly insectivorous in their diet, and may often be seen 

 searching the dead leaves on trees for insects. The first nest was 

 found in course of construction in the mangroves at Paira on the 

 7th January, 191 1 ; two eggs were afterwards laid. This nest was 

 10 feet from the ground, suspended by the rim from a horizontal fork 

 of a small, bushy mangrove. It was composed outwardly of broad 

 strips of melaleuca and swamp mahogany bark^ lined with a few fine 

 rootlets and fine strips of bark, and very compactly built, the sides 

 being ^--inch in thickness, the bottom J-inch. Another nest, con- 

 taining eggs, was found on the 2nd February. This was 30 feet up 

 in a bushy tree in the scrub. A third nest, found on the 12th February, 

 was also about 30 feet up in a bushy scrub tree, and contained two 

 half-fledged young. A fourth, found on the nth April, contained 

 one hard-set egg : this nest was 50 feet up in a bushy scrub tree. 



5. length in flesh, 7f inches ; irides brown, bill black, legs leaden- 

 blue. Stomach contents, insect remains. 



Myzantha flavigula. Yellow-throated Miner. — -Numerous in the 

 Gulf country, where they were nesting in and after the wet 

 season. Noted as a foster-parent of the Koel. 



Entomyza harterti. Northern Blue-faced Honey-eater. — Numerous 

 from 16 miles on Cape York telegraph line to the Jardine River, and 

 at Lockerbie when the tea-tree is in bloom. This bird very closely 

 resembles E. cyanotis, E. albipennis not being found on the Cape 

 York Peninsula. Only one nest was found, near the Jardine River, 

 in an old Babbler's nest ; it contained two eggs only. 



?, irides silvery-cream colour ; bare skin above eye pale greenish- 

 blue, below the eye deep sky-blue ; bill black, base of bill pale 

 greenish-blue ; legs pale slate. Stomach contents, honey and insects. 



Tropidorhvnchus argenticeps. Silvery-crowned Friar-Bird. — At 

 Cape York these birds were only noted on the western side of the 

 Peninsula, where they were numerous in 191 1 in the messmate and 

 bloodwood forest country. The nest is usually placed high in one 

 of these trees, and is a pendant one, somewhat smaller than that of 

 the Helmeted Friar-Bird. Usual clutch, two. 



S, irides light brown, bare skin of head black, legs slaty-blue. 

 Stomach contents, honey and insects. 



Tropidorhynchus buceroides. Helmeted Friar-Bird. — Numerous all 

 the year round in the forest country at Cape York, where they nest 

 in the Moreton Bay ash trees in company with Sphecotheres, Drongo, 

 and Aplonis, laying three to four eggs. 



$, iris dark orange, bill and naked skin of head black, legs dark 

 leaden-grey. 



Philemon sordidus. Little Friar-Bird. — Common in Gulf country 

 and at Cape York in the more open country. One nest found on the 

 Cloncurry River contained young birds in February ; another, which 

 had two eggs in it. was vigorously defended by the parent birds 

 when Mr. M'Lennan attempted to examine it. 



