32 MELIPHA&IDiE. 



and very slightly glossy. They vary from pale salmon-pink to 

 salmon-buff, spotted, almost entirely at the broad end where the 

 markings form an imperfect zoae or cap, with chestnut or purplish- 

 red and underlying lavender or lilac-red. They measure from 

 •65 to -8 in length, and from -53 to "64 in breadth. 



1. West Australia. Gould Coll. 

 3. West Australia, 26th Oct. (G. F. Gould Coll. 



Angas). 



2. Queensland. Gould Coll. 



1. New South Wales (Bracltenbridge). Crowley Bequest. 



2. Dobroyd, N. S. Wales (E. P. Ram- Crowley Bequest. 



say : Tristram Coll.). 



3. New South Wales {E. P. Ramsay). Gould Coll. 



2. Victoria. Govt, of Victoria TP,' 



3. Victoria. Govt, of Victoria [P. 



2. Victoria. Govt, of Victoria 'V. 



3. Victoria. Govt, of Victoria [P. 

 2. Hastings, Western Point, Victoria, Crowley Bequest. 



15th October {A. J. North). 



Melithreptes albigularis, Gould. 



Meliphaga albogularia, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. tab. xvi. fig. 17 



(1845-54). 

 Melithreptus albogularis, Gould, Ilandb. Birds Austr. i. p. 571 (1865). 

 Melithreptus albigularis, Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. ix. p. 205 (1884) ; 



North, Nests Sf Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 228 (1 889) ; Le Sou'ef, Ibis, 



1900, p. 463. 

 Melithreptus lunuLatus albigularis, Campbell, Nests Sf Eggs Austr. Birds, 



i. p. 362 (1901). 

 Melithreptes albigularis, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 64 (1906). 



The eggs of the White-throated Honey-eater are of a narrow 

 and blunt oval shape, and entirely devoid of gloss. They are 

 pinkish- white, rather thickly spotted with chestnut, lilac-red, and 

 lavender. Two examples measure respectively : '85 by '53 ; 

 ■72 by -52. 



2. Port EssingtoD, Australia { Wilson). Gould Coll. 



Melithreptes gularis, Gould. 



Mehthreptus gularis, Gould, Ilandb. Birds Austr. i. p. 666 (1865) ; 

 Ramsay, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 697 ; Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. ix. p. 205 

 (1884) ; North, Nests Sf Eggs Anstr. Birds, p. 226 (1889) ; Campbell, 

 Nests §■ Eggs Austr. Birds, i. p. 363 (1901). 



Melithreptes gularis, Sharpe, Hana-l. v. p. 65 (1906). 



The eggs of the Black-throated Honey-eater are of an elliptical 

 shape and slightly glossy. They resemble the eggs of M. atricapillus. 

 Two examples measure respectively : -88 by -61 ; "77 by "59. 



2. New South Wales [G. Bennett). Gould Coll. 



1. Adelaide, S. Australia, September Crowley Bequest. 

 (/. W. Mellor). 



