82 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



308 and 310. Fbephila atropygialis has been noted in the 

 Rockingham Bay district, and I have handled skins of the 

 lovely grass finch (P. gouldioe) from the same quarter. 



326. SericuliLs melinus. I once saw a skin of the regent-bird 

 (an immature male) taken in the Dawson district. 



328. AilurcBdus vh'idis. To my knowledge the cat-bird has 

 not been seen in Victoria ; certainly not in South Australia. 

 To save Dr. Ramsa}^ it is to be hoped the Club's expedition 

 may find it in the Croajingolong Mountains at Christmas. 



354. Poviatostomiis riiheculus. Dr. Ramsay has evidently 

 recorded this bird for the Dawson River instead of P. temporalis. 

 In justice to myself I may state I have described eggs of P. 

 riibecuhis purported to have been taken at the Dawson River, 

 and birds identified at the Australian Museum. But when I 

 visited the district I could detect no difference in the so-called 

 P. rubeculus from the southern variety (P. temporalis). There- 

 fore, I had skins submitted to Professor Alfred Newton, of 

 Cambridge, who pronounced them to be P. temporalis. With 

 this opinion Dr. Gadow concurred. 



35 6a. Meliornis longirostris. Specimens of the long-billed 

 honey-eater have been taken at Encounter Bay, S.A. 



370. Ptilotis flavicollis. Gould recorded this species for 

 New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia, as well as 

 Tasmania. Dr. Ramsay has raised a query (?) against the 

 species for his colony (N.S.W.). But I think he should have 

 been bolder and have expunged it altogether, as well as from 

 Victoria and South Australia. I have sought carefully for this 

 lively and attractive bird in all parts of Victoria, and have failed 

 to detect its presence, and have come to the conclusion that the 

 yellow-throated honey-eater is confined to Tasmania and the 

 intermediate islands only where I have seen it. 



388. Stomiopera uincolor. Dr. Ramsay may possibly recollect 

 I produced a skin of this bird to him when returning from 

 Queensland. He was kind enough to turn up Gould's figure 

 and identify it for me. One would have thought the doctor 

 would have seized such an opportunity for extending the locality 

 of the honey-eater to Rockingham Bay district, especially when 

 I informed him I took it at Townsville, together with its nest 

 and eggs. 



390. Meliphaga phtygia. I beg to remind Dr. Ramsay that 

 this species is found both in Victoria and South Australia, not- 

 withstanding he has left these localities vacant. I took num- 

 bers of their nests in the Caulfield district, 1869, and in the 

 Sandhurst district, 1880. My last note of the beautiful honey- 

 eater is recorded on 2nd November, 1886, when I saw an extra- 

 ordinary flock of about 40 warty-faced honey-eaters at Don- 

 caster Creek, 10 miles from Melbourne, 



