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bough, or among the bushy tops of the young ■ Eiioalypti. The 

 Turpentine trees (Syncarpia) also aiFord favourite sites for their 

 nests, which are two inches and a-half across by two inches deep. 

 The eggs are two in number, from eight and a-half to ten lines 

 long, by six to seven lines in breadth ; the ground colour is of a 

 deep yeUowish-buff, with spots of a deeper and more reddish hue, 

 and a few of faint lilac, in some sprinkled equally over the whole 

 surface, in others crowded, or forming a zone at the larger end." 

 {Ramsay, Proc. Phil. Soc, Sydney, 1865, p. 321, pi. i., fig. 4.) 



Two sets taken at Dobroyde measure as follows: — No. 1, length 

 (A) 0-76 X 0-54 inch ; (B) 0-76 x 0-55 inch ; No. 2, (0) 0-8 x 0-6 

 inch ; (D) 0-78 x 0-58 inch. 



Hab. Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 

 Dawson River, Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New 

 South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia. (Ramsay.) 



■ 2 - '' PTILOTIS CHRYSOPS, Latham. 



Yello'w-facecl Honey-eater. 

 Gould, Eandbk. Bds. Aust, Vol. i., sp. 320, p. 521. 2^" ^^ 



This Honey-eater is distributed over the whole of the southern 

 portion of the Australian continent ; I found it breeding in great 

 numbers on the shores of Western Port Bay in Victoria, and in the 

 neighbourhood of Sydney it is one of the most common species of the 

 genus Ptilotis, inhabiting also all the parks and gardens in the 

 City. A nest of this species in the Australian Museum Collection 

 taken by Dr. Ramsay at Dobroyde, in September 1865, is a round 

 cup-shaped structure, outwardly composed of fine strips of stringy- 

 bark and moss, lined inside with grasses, and thin wiry bark fibre. 

 Exterior measurements two inches and a-half in diameter, by one 

 inch and three-quarters in depth ; internal diameter two inches, by 

 one inch and a-half in depth. The rim of the nest is worked over 

 a thin forked horizontal branch of a Eucalyptus." The nests of this 

 species I found in the Gippsland Ranges were very beautiful 

 structures, being built of fibrous bark, ajid the whole exterior 



