GLYOIPHILA MODESTA, Gray. 

 (G. sub/asciata, Ramsay.) 

 Plain-coloured Honey-eater. 

 Gray, P.Z.S., 1858, p. 174. IML ^^ 



"This species, although possessing nothing in its sombre plumage 

 to recommend it, is certainly very interesting on account of its 

 peculiarly shaped nest, being the only one of the Australian 

 MeUphagidse that I have met with which constructs a dome-shaped 

 nest. It is a neat structure, composed of strips of bark, spiders' 

 webs, and grass, and lined with fine grasses &c. The opening 

 at the side is rather large ; but the nest itself is deep. The 

 eggs I did not obtain ; but one taken from the oviduct of a bird 

 is 0-75 inch in length and 0-5 inch in breadth, pure white, with a 

 few dots of black sprinkled over the larger end. The nests were 

 invariably placed among the drooping branches of a species of 

 Acacia, always overhanging some creek or running water." 

 (Bamsay, P.Z.S., 1868, p. 365.) 



Sab. Cape York, Rockingham Bay, South Coast New Guinea. 

 (^Bamsaj/.') 



Genus STIGMATOPS, Gould. 



2 STIGMATOPS OCULARIS, Gould. 



Brown Honey-eater. 

 Oould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 304, p. 500. ^^SC //, 



For the nest and several sets of eggs of this bird I am indebted 

 to Mr. George Barnard of Ooomooboolaroo, Duaringa, Queensland. 

 The nest is a very neat cup-shaped structure, outwardly composed 

 of strips of bark and grasses, held together with the nests of spiders 

 and lined inside with finer grasses, the downy seeds of some 

 composite plant, and hair. The one now before me was attached 

 to the thin twigs of an orange tree in Mr. Barnard's garden, 

 within a few feet of the ground. It measures exteriorly two inches 

 in diameter by one inch and a-half in depth, internal diameter one 



