PLEOTOEHYNOHA. 209 



PTILOTIS NOTATA, i^ould. 

 Yellow-spotted Honey-eater. 

 €fould, S-uppl. Ms.. -^ust, 71.4:1. ZSHT. f 



" The eggs of this species are very similar to those of the other 

 members of the genus, being of a pinkish-white ground colour, 

 with rich dark spots on the thicker end, some confluent, forming 

 blotches larger than usual. They come nearest to those of Ptilofis 

 av/ricomis, and measure (A) 0'9 x 0'&5 inch ; (B) 0-91 x 0-64: inch. 

 Taken by Mr. Boyer-Bower near Cairns, Northern Queensland. 

 (Bamsay, P.L.S., F.S.W., 2nd Series, Vol. i., p. 1150.) 



Hah. From Port Denison northward to New Guinea. {^Ramsay.') 



Genus PLECTOKHYNCHA, Gould. 



-3-*' PLECTORHYNCHA LANCEOLATA, CowZd 

 Lanceolate Honey-eater. 

 Oould, Handhh. Bds. Aust , Vol. i., sp., 323, p. 525. JUJL. ^. 

 This bird is widely distributed throughout the interior of New 

 South Wales, and is also found on the borders of the Mallee 

 country of Victoria and South Australia. A beautiful nest of 

 this species, taken in the Wimmera District, Victoria, by Mr. 

 James Hill, together with the eggs in September 1881, is a deep 

 cup-shaped structure, being nearly as wide at the bottom as 

 at the top ; it is composed of iibrous roots and grasses, which are 

 completely hidden with an almost snow-white covering of sheep's 

 wool ; the bottom of the nest inside being neatly lined with 

 very fine grasses and a small quantity of horsehair. It measures 

 internally three inches in diameter, by four inches in depth, and 

 was attached by the rim to the thin pendant branches of a 

 Casuarina, hanging within a few feet of the ground. Mr. K. 

 H. Bennett also found this bird breeding plentifully in the 

 neighbourhood of Ivanhoe and Mossgiel,' in the interior qf New 

 iSouth Wales. Eggs three or four in number for a sitting, usually 

 three, elongated in form. 



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