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and very slightly glossy. They vary from pale salmon-pink to 

 salmon- buff, spotted, almost entirely at the broad end where the 

 markings form an imperfect zone or cap, with chestnut or purplish- 

 red and underlying lavender or lilac-red. They measure from 

 65 to *8 in length, and from *53 to '64 in breadth. 



1. West Australia. Gould Coll. 

 3. West Australia, 26th Oct. (G. F. Gould Coll. 



Angas). 



2. Queensland. ^ Gould Coll. 



1. New South Wales (Brack enbridge). Crowley Bequest. 



2. Dobroyd, N. S. Wales (E. P. Ram- Crowley Bequest. 



say : Tristram Coll.). 



3. New South Wales (E. P. Ramsay}. Gould Coll. 



2. Victoria. Govt. of Victoria [__ 



3. Victoria. Go vf. of Victoria [P." 



2. Victoria. Govt. of Victoria [P." 



3. Victoria. Govt. of Victoria [P.' 

 2. Hastings, Western Point, Victoria, Crowley Bequest. 



15th October (A. J. North). 



Melithreptes albigularis, Gould. 



Meliphaga albogularis, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. tab. xvi. fig. 17 



(1845-54). 



Melithreptus albogularis, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 571 (1865). 

 Melithreptus albigularis, Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. ix. p. 205 (1884) ; 



North, Nests $ Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 228 (1889); Le Souef, Ibis, 



1900, p. 463. 

 Melithreptus lunulatus albigularis, Campbell, Nests fy Eggs Austr. Birds, 



i. p. 362 (1901). 

 Melithreptes albigularis, Sharpe, Hand-l v. p. 64 (1906). 



The eggs of the White-throated Honey-eater are of a narrow 

 and blunt oval shape, and entirely devoid of gloss. They are 

 pinkish-white, rather thickly spotted with chestnut, lilac-red, and 

 lavender. Two examples measure respectively : *85 by *53 ; 

 72 by -52. 



2. Port Essington, Australia ( Wilson). Gould Coll. 



Melithreptes gularis, Gould. 



Melithreptus gularis, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 566 (1865) ; 

 Ramsay, P. Z. 8. 1875, p. 597 ; Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. ix. p. 205 

 (1884)'; North, Nests fy Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 226 (1889) ; Campbell, 

 Nests $ Eggs Austr. Birds, i. p. 363 (1901). 



Melithreptes gularis, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 65 (1906). 



The eggs of the Black-throated Honey-eater are of an elliptical 

 shape and slightly glossy. They resemble the eggs of M. atricapillus. 

 Two examples measure respectively : '88 by *61 ; '77 by *59. 



2. New South Wales (G. Bennett). Gould Coll. 



1. Adelaide, S. Australia, September Crowley Bequest. 

 (J. W. Mellor). 



