196 MELIPHAGIDai. 



A set taken near Hobart, Tasmania, in October 1885, measures 

 as follows :— length (A) 0-75 x 0-56 inch ; (B) 0-75 x 0-58 inch; 

 (C) 0-74 X 0-57 inch. 



The breeding season of this species commences in August, 

 and continues until the end of December. 



Sab. "Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 

 Districts, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, 

 Tasmania. {Ba/msay.) 



Genus GLYCIPHILA, Swainson. 



^ GLYCIPHILA FULVIFRONS, Lewin. 



Fulvous-fronted Honey-eater. 

 Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 301, p. 495. ^^ '^ 



This bird is plentiful on the sterile and low scrubby Banksia 

 covered tracts of land near the coast in the neighbourhood of 

 Sydney, particularly at Botany and La Perouse. A nest of this 

 species in the Australian Museum Collection, taken among others 

 at Heathcote on the lUawarra Line by Dr. Hurst and myself on 

 the 30th of October 1886, is a deep cup-shaped structure, outwardly 

 composed of strips of bark and dried grasses, warmly lined with 

 feathers, downy grass seeds, and velvety tufts from the Banksia 

 cones ; it measures exteriorly three inches and a-half in diameter 

 by three inches in depth, inside cavity two inches in diameter by 

 two inches in depth. It was built close to the ground, beneath 

 some ferns (Pteris aquilina), to which the rim of the nest was 

 attached. The bird as is usual with this species, allowed itself to 

 be nearly trodden upon before leaving the nest. Eggs two in 

 number for a sitting, usually elongated in form, and varying 

 considerably in the disposition of their markings. The eggs 

 taken from the above nest are pure white with a zone of reddish- 

 chestnut spots towards the larger end. Length (A) 0'85 x 0'59 

 inch; (B) 0-84 x 0-6 inch. 



Two eggs in the Australian Museum Collection are elongated 

 in form, white with a very few spots of chestnut-brown on the 

 larger end. Length (A) 0-87 x 0-6 inch ; (B) 0-85 x 0-63 inch. 



