GLYOIPHILA. 197 



A pair in the Dobroyde Collection taken at Bondi, in September 

 1865, are in form rounded orals, white with a few minute spots 

 of chestnut-brown scattered over the surface. Length (A) 0-79 x 

 0-64 inch; (B) 0-85 x 0-63 inch. 



In New South Wales this species commences to breed in July 

 and continues the five following months. 



Hah. Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Eivers 

 Districts, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, 

 Tasmania, West and South- West Australia. (Ramsay.) 



^ GLYCIPHILA ALBIFRONS, Gould. 



White-fronted Honey-eater. 

 Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust. Vol. i., sp. 302, p. 497. 



This bird is found in the Mallee country of Victoria and South 

 Australia, and also in the interior of New South Wales, over which 

 it is very sparingly distributed. A nest of this species now before 

 me taken by Mr. K. H. Bennett, together with the eggs, in 

 October 1886, at Ivanhoe, is a very flat structure, the base being 

 composed of very thin dried stems of a climbing plant, and grasses, 

 matted together with a little wool, over which is placed a 

 layer of wool intermingled with a few wiry blades of dried grass. 

 Diameter of base, four inches ; the layer of wool, two inches and 

 three-quarters ; and the whole structure one inch and a-half in 

 thickness. There is just sufficient depression in the centre of the 

 nest to keep the eggs in position. Eggs two in number for a 

 sitting, of a light saturnine red ground colour ; on the larger end 

 they are thickly spotted, and in a few places blotched with irregular 

 shaped markings of reddish-chestnut and chestnut-brown, but over 

 the remainder of the surface the markings are much smaller, and 

 very sparingly distributed ; on the larger end are obsolete spots 

 of purpUsh-grey. Length (A) 0-78 x 0-57 inch; (B) 0-82 x 

 0-58 inch. 



Hah. New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia, 

 West and South- West Australia. (Eamsay.) 



