AGANTHOGBNYS, 21 3 



Hah. Derby, N.W. Australia, Port Darwin and Port Essington, 

 (rulf of Carpentaria, Cape York, South Coast New Guinea.. 

 {Bemisay.) 



? ~bj EJSfTOMOPHILA RUFIGULARIS, Gould. 



Eed-tliroated Honey-eater. 

 Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 328, p. 533. 



" This species is found commonly dispersed all over the Gulf of 

 Carpentaria country. It has been found breeding in the 

 neighbourhood of Normanton and Georgetown, during the months 

 from September to March. The nest is a round, open, and neat 

 cup-shaped structure, usually slung by the rim between forked 

 twigs. The one before me, sent by Mr. Armit, was taken from a 

 branch of an Eryihrina. It is composed of fine grasses, matted 

 outside with white ' cobwebs,' and lined with fine grasses alone. 

 It is rather a deep nest, being three inches and a-half long by two 

 inches in diameter. The eggs are usually two, but sometimes thrjee 

 in number, of a pearly-white, rather thickly spotted with bright 

 reddish-brown. Length 0-64 x 0'49 inch in diameter at the thicker 

 end. The yomig on leaving the nest have all the upper surface 

 brown, and all the under surface white ; the outer webs of the 

 wing quills margined with oHve-yeUow.'' (Ramsay, P.L.S., W.S. 

 W., Vol. ii., p. 111.) 



Hah. Derby, N.W. Australia, Port Darwin and Port Essington, 

 Gulf of Carpentaria, Cape York. (Ramsay.) 



Genus AGANTHOGENYS, Gould. 



■^ ACANTHOGENYS RUFIGULARIS, Gould. 

 Sprny-oh.eeked Honey-eater. 

 Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol i., sp. 329, p. 534. .22: ■"^■ 



This bird is a lover of the scrubby portions of the interior of 

 Australia, and the Mallee country of Victoria and South Australia. 



