228 MELIPHAGIDa!. 



3 MELITHREPTUS CHLOROPSIS, Gould. 



Swan River Honey-eater. 



Qould, Handhk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 350, p. 570. 



" The nest of this species is usually suspended from the small 

 branches near the top of the gum-trees, where the foliage is 

 thickest, which renders it extremely difficult to detect. A nest 

 found by Gilbert in October, was formed of sheep's wool and small 

 twigs ; another found by him in November was attached to a 

 small myrtle-like tree, in a thick gum forest, not more than three 

 feet from the ground ; both these nests contained three eggs, nine 

 and a-half lines long by six and a-half lines broad, of a deep 

 reddish-buff, thinly spotted all over, but particularly at the larger 

 end with dark reddish-brown, some of the spots being indistinct, 

 while others were very conspicuous." (Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., 

 Vol. i., p. 570. 



Hob. Western Australia. 



? MELITHREPTUS ALBIGULARIS, Gould. 



"White-throated Honey-eater. 



Gould, Handbh. Bds. Aust , Vol. i., sp. 351, p. 571. 



"This species, which inhabits the northern and eastern parts 

 of Australia, is very abundant on the Cobourg Peninsula. The 

 nest, which is always suspended to a drooping branch, and which 

 swings about with every gust of wnd, is formed of dried narrow 

 strips of the soft bark of the Melaleuca. The eggs which are 

 generally two in number, are of a light salmon colour, blotched 

 and freckled with reddish-brown, and are about nine lines long by 

 six lines broad." {Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust, Vol. i., p. 571.) 



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

 Gulf of Carpentaria, Cape York, Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, 

 Wide Bay District, South Coast New Guinea. {Ramsay.) 



