128 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST 
76. ARTAMUS ALBIVENTRIS. (White-vented Wood Swallow.) 
Locality,— Queensland. Egg,—Like that of A. leucopygialis, with 
markings generally stronger in colour. Ground color whitish or 
warm white, marked principally round the upper quarter, with 
blotches amd spots of umber or reddish-brown intermingled with 
obscured grey markings; length 104 to 11 lines; breadth 8 lines. 
317. Prinotis rLava. (Yellow Honey-eater.) Localtiy,— 
Queensland. Egg,—Warm white, marked about the apex with 
blotches of pinkish-red of the same character of color as that generally 
found on eggs ofthe Maluri (Superb Warblers.) Some of the markings 
are confluent; a few spots also appear here and there over the other 
portion of the shell; length 104 to 102 lines; breadth 64 to 63 lines. 
On the 22nd September I discovered the nest of this lively and 
beautiful Honey-eater in an orange tree in the Acacia Vale Nurseries, 
Townsville. The nest contained a pair of eggs and was composed 
of bark, grass and spiders’ old nests and lined with fine grass. 
322. Sromiopera (Ptlotis) untcotor. (Uniform-colored 
Honey-eater.) Locality—North Australia and New Guinea. 
Egg,—Ground-color white with a faint pinkish tinge, with large 
blotches and spot of beautiful pinkish and purplish red; the 
markings being well distributed but inclined to congregate around 
the upper quarter; length 114 to 11} lines; breadth 64 to 62 lines. 
The day following the discovery. of the Yellow Honey= eater’s 
nest I discovered this other new one, which however, was much 
larger, being thickly constructed of grass, externally coated with 
fine strips of Melaleuca bark and spiders’ nests. It was suspended 
by the rim to a forked twig of a small thickly foliaged tree at Stuart’s 
Creek. The nest contained two eggs. Previously I found a nest 
with a pair of fully fledged young. 
352. Menitarerrus MELANOCEPHALUS. (Black-headed Honey- 
eater.) Locality,—Tasmania. Egg,—Of a flesh color, with a 
darker shade of the same color round the upper quarter where are 
also distributed markings and spots of yellowish and reddish brown, 
in some eases the yellowish red is substituted by purplish red; 
length 9 lines; breadth 6 lines, 
Much interest is attached to this little bird because its nest was 
last discovered and now completes these of all the Honey-eaters 
known to Tasmania. At a meeting of the Royal Society of 
Tasmania, November 1884, ““Mr. E. D. Swan drew attention to 
an extremely rare nest and eggs of the Common Blackcap 
(Melithreptus melanocephalus), which had been taken at Austin’s 
Ferry, Bridgewater, and presented to the museum by Miss A. 
Brent, Roseneath. "Although the bird was one of our commonest, 
and various rewards offered for the eggs, Mr. Swan stated this had 
been the first egg as yet obtained. The nest taken in November is 
composed almost entirely of wool, though a few pieces of moss, 
