182 Mr. R. Hall o)i Birds 
I find that they are more brightly coloured and that two 
are considerably larger, -while the third has practically the 
same measurements of bill and wings. 
The western skins shew : — 
A and B. Total length 5*85 inches, wing 3*15, culmen 
0-52. 
C. Total length 5*25 inches^ wing 2'9, culmen 0*45. 
My observations on this form were made in the Karri 
forest country that lies some fifty miles in from Albany and 
has only recently been opened up by a timber company. To 
what extent this will affect the bird 1 cannot well say. 
There is a specimen of the nest of this species in the 
Perth Museum w^iich has the peculiarity of being much 
like that of the Robin, Petroeca phomicea. Those of the 
Melithrepti are not generally loosely constructed and placed 
between three strong prongs. How^ever, this does not seem 
more wonderful than that the western Spine-bill should build 
an abnormal type of nest in a similar position near Albany. 
35. Glycyphila ocularis. Brown Honey-eater. (HalPs 
Key, p. 40.) 
A. Ad. S- Geraldton. 27.10.99. Total length 5-25 
inches, wing 2*64, tarsus 0'65, tail 2*25. 
B. Ad. ? . Geraldton. 14.10.99. Total length 5-35 
inches, wing 2'63, tarsus 0"65, tail 225. 
C. Young. Geraldton. 27.10.99. Total length 3 5 
inches, wing 1"85, tarsus 0'65, tail 0*9. 
Description of an immature bird (being fed among the 
foliage by the parents; this is the young of A). — The 
abdomen and breast are faint yellow. A large area behind 
and below each eve and continued under the lores is bare, 
but the series of peculiar feathers that afterwards make this 
species conspicuous are represented by spots which appear 
to be beneath the skin. Although the rectrices extend from 
their sheaths only to a length of 0'6 inch, there is a clear 
flush of green upon them, particularly on the ventral 
surface, in contradistinction to their state in the adult, which 
shews the green wash more clearly on the dorsal surface 
