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material. On the outside were a few leaves woven into 

 the sides. Dimensions outside 4§ by 2| by 8 inches 

 deep. Inside 2| by 2 by 4 inches deep. 



Eggs : Clutch two, ground-colour white, coloured with 

 reddish spots all over, but more on the larger end, 20 mm. 

 by 14. Jan. 12th, 1912. 



It contained the egg of Guculus pyrrophanus dumetorum, 

 which has the ground-colour pale stone, with a ring round 

 the larger end of brownish and lavender spots ; 18.5 by 13.5. 



1,229a. Ptilotis leucotis torringtoni, subsp. n. 



Yellow-bellied White-eared Honey-eater. 



Differs from P. I. leucotis in its very yellow abdomen. 

 Type, Torrington, New South Wales (near the Queens- 

 land border), No. 11,674. 



Range, North New South Wales (Queensland ?). 



1,229b. Ptilotis leucotis melanodera. 



Victorian White-eared Honey-eater. 



Philedon melanodera Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. de 

 "l'Astrol," Zool., Vol. I., p. 191, PI. 8, fig. 1, 1830. 

 Western Port, Victoria. 



Reference List No. 1,230 (pars.). 



Range, Victoria. 



1,336. Read — Mirafra javanica halli. 



Mirafra horsfieldi halli Bianchi, Bull. Acad. Imp. 

 Sci. St. Petersb., Ser. 5, Vol. XXV., 1906, p. 81, 1907. 

 Roebuck Bay Plains, North-west Australia. 



This name has priority over M. milligani Mathews, 

 1908. I have to thank Dr. C. W. Richmond for pointing 

 out this interesting alteration. 



1,377. For original reference read — 



Poepliila atropygialis Diggles, Proc. Queensl. Philos. 

 Soc. 1876, p. 11. Normanton, Queensland. 



Gregory M. Mathews. 



