226 MELIPHAGID*. 



of a deeper tint, they form an ill-defined zone. Length (A) 0'78 

 X 0-57 inch ; (B) 0-76 x 0-54 inch ; (C) 0-75 x 0-54 inch. 



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

 Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New South Wales, 

 Interior, Victoria and South Australia. (Ramsay.) 



2 MELITHREPTUS GULARIS, Gould. ' 



Black-tliroated Honey-eater. 



Oould, Handbh. Bds. Aust , Vol. i., sp. 348, p. 566. 



In a list of birds met with in North-eastern Queensland, 

 published in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 

 Dr. Ramsay writes as follows regarding this bird ; — 



" This species appears to be plentiful, but not in the immediate 

 vicinity of the coast. It is not rare about Maryborough, 

 and is also found on the Upper Herbert. It has considerable 

 powers of song, which may be heard often at daylight in the 

 morning. While camped on the banks of the Gregory, a pair of 

 these birds frequented a Wattle-tree (Acacia) near to our ' tent ' 

 (a sheet of hark /), and delighted us every morning for many days 

 by pouring out their varied and pleasing song, which often lasted 

 for ten or fifteen minutes without ceasing. I have since heard 

 their song under more comfortable circumstances ; and my brother 

 and I at once recognized our old friends. The nest and eggs are 

 similar, but slightly larger than those of M. lunulatus; eggs twb 

 in number, pale salmon-pink with deep reddish-salmon dots on the 

 larger end; length 0-73 x 0-55 inch. The nest is cup-shaped, 

 slung by the rim between twigs at the end of a leafy bough, and 

 composed of fine grasses and strips of bark webbed together with 

 spiders' nests." {Ramsay, P.Z.S., 1876, p. 118.) 



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

 New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. {Ramsay.) 

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