214 MELIPHAGID^. 



A nest of this species in the Australian Museum Collection 

 presented by Mr. K. H. Bennett of Mossgiel, is a round, cup- 

 shaped, and somewhat scanty structure, composed of long dried 

 grasses, and stalks of plants, the latter bent into position when 

 green, and held together with spiders' webs ; a peculiarity in this 

 and in all the nests that I have seen of this species, being that 

 many of the grasses and stalks are not worked in horizontally 

 around the structure, but perpendicularly, though not necessarily 

 straight, from the rim to the bottom of the nest where they cross 

 and recross each other. Exterior diameter, three and three- 

 quarters of an inch, by two inches and a-half in depth ; internal 

 diameter three inches by two inches in depth. The nest is 

 attached by the rim to the thin branch of a tree, usually at no 

 great height from the ground. Eggs two in number for a sitting. 



Two eggs taken by Mr. K. H. Bennett, at Mossgiel, in the month 

 of October, are of a very pale yellowish-brown ground colour 

 becoming darker towards the larger end, where they are deeply 

 marked with dark umber-brown and slaty-brown spots, intef mingled 

 with others of a wood-brown and dark lilac tint, appearing as if 

 beneath the surface of the shell. Length (A) 1-02 x 0'75 inch ; 

 (B)l-Ol xO-71. 



Specimens taken in the Wimmera District, Victoria, and on the 

 Lachlan River, New South Wales, are all alike in colour and in 

 the disposition of their markings. The breeding season commences 

 in September and continues during the two following months. 



Hab. Dawson River, New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and 

 South Australia, West and South-west Australia. (^Eamsay.) 



Genus AOANTHOCH^RA, Vigors and Horsfield. 



3-3 ACANTHOCH^RA INAURIS, Gould. 



Tasmanian Wattled Honey-eater. 

 Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 330, p. 536. 



This bird is generally dispersed over the whole of Tasmania, 

 and is found breeding in the vicinity of Hobart. The nest 



