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Meliphaga sonora, Gould (Singing Honey-eater). 

 A very common bird all over the country traversed. The 

 large series of skins taken agrees well with the coastal form, yet 

 the note of the interior bird is a very distinctive one, and not 

 once did we hear any of the notes common to coastal birds. 

 One of the most common calls of this interior bird is made 

 when passing from one flowering tree or shrub to another, and 

 sounds like "perisimo, perisimo," repeated many times, but 

 none of the full, liquid, and sonorous notes we are so used to 

 hearing in the south. 



LiCHENOSTOMUS KEAIITLANDI, Nortll 



(Grey-headed Honey-eater). 



Met with in the Musgrave and Everard Ranges, where it 

 was fairly plentiful. It possesses that erratic flight and 

 manner so common to members of the same family. The note 

 is rather feeble, the most common one being an alarm note, 

 uttered many times, like "chit, chit, chit." Found fully- 

 fledged young, with the parent birds, in the Everard Range. 

 Upon comparing the birds with skins taken in the type locality 

 I find that the birds from the Musgrave and Everard Ranges 

 are much brighter, especially the yellow on the breast and 

 throat. 



LiCHENOSTOMUS PLUMULUS ETHELAE, MathewS 



(Southern Yellow-fronted Honey-eater). 



In some localities these birds were very numerous and are 

 very like P. ornata in habits and call, many of the notes being 

 the same at Wantapella Swamp. Young birds just away 

 from the nest were met with, and their breasts were covered 

 in a light-yellow down. I found this the case with nestlings 

 a few days old. 



PtILOTULA PENICILLATA LEILAVALENSIS , North 



(Cloncurry AVhite-plumed Honey-eater). 



The bird was found on all the dry water-courses and in 

 the ranges where the red-gum was growing. Its habits and 

 note seem identical with the southern form, P. peii'icilhiin . 

 I feel very uncertain about this bird being the Cloncurry 

 variety, for it shows a dark line alongside the white ear-covert, 

 but not having seen North's type I am allowing it to appear 

 as above. 



Myzantha flavigula, Gould (Yellow-throated Miner). 

 A very common bird near all water, and, like other 

 members of the genus, very noisy and restless. They have a 

 habit of congregating in a party of a dozen or more on a limb, 



