594 MR. E. P. RAMSAY ON [Nov. 16, 
which have sprung from the fruits brought by these birds for their 
young. 
The food of this species is chiefly, if not exclusively, fruit of various 
kinds, including the seeds of several species of palms, particularly 
those of Ptychosperma alexandre and Kentia wendtlandtiana ; but 
although four species of Calamus with edible subacid fruits abound, 
I never found that these birds fed upon them. 
The eggs are from three to four in number, variable in form, some 
roundish, others elongate, about the size of those of Sturnus vulgaris, 
of a greenish white, with bright reddish brown spots and dots, more 
numerous at the larger end. 
121. PoMATOSTOMUS SUPERCILIOSUS. 
122. PoMATOSTOMUS TEMPORALIS. 
I only met with these birds on the western side of the coast-range, 
in open forest and thinly timbered country. 
123. GLYCIPHILA FASCIATA. 
This species is plentifully distributed over the coast-country from 
Port Denison to Cooktown. In habits and actions they resemble 
Ptilotis flava and others. 
124. GiycrpHita suBFasciaTA, Ramsay, P. Z. 8. 1868, p. 
385. 
This species, although possessing nothing in its sombre plumage 
to recommend it, is certainly very interesting on account of its pecu- 
liarly shaped nest, being the only one of the Australian Melipha- 
ginee that I have met with which constructs a dome-shaped nest. 
It is a neat structure, composed of strips of bark, spiders’ webs, and 
grass, and lined with fine grasses &c. The opening at the side is 
rather large; but the nest itself is rather deep, being about 4 inches 
long and 2} to 3 inches wide. The eggs I did not obtain; but one 
taken from the oviduct of a bird is 0°75 inch in length and 0°5 
in breadth, pure white, with a few dots of black sprinkled over 
the larger end. 
The nests were invariably placed among the drooping branches of 
a species of Acacia always overhanging some creek or running water. 
All the nests I found were so situated ; and my young friend Master 
I. Sheridan of Cardwell, who has paid considerable attention to 
objects of natural history, assures me that he has never found them 
otherwise ; and the usual number of eggs for a sitting are two, and 
frequently without any black dots on the surface. 
Their note is a sharp, shrill, monotonous cry, oft repeated at inter- 
vals ; iris reddish brown. 
125. STIGMATOPS SUBOCULARIS. 
This species seems plentiful, inhabiting the mangroves and mar- 
gins of the scrubs on the water’s edge. They betake themselves to 
almost any of the forest trees when they are in bloom, attracted by 
