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to four. The nest is small, compact, and formed of dried wiry 

 grasses, bound together with the hairy tendrils of small plants 

 and wool, the inside being lined with very minute fibrous roots ; 

 its breadth is about two inches, and depth one inch ; the eggs are 

 greenish-blue without spot or markings, eight lines long by six 

 lines broad." (Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., p. 588.) 



Hob. West Australia. 



'• ZOSTEROPS FLAVOGULARIS, Masters. 



Masters, P.L.S., N.S. W., Vol. i., p. 56. 



" This very distinct and well marked species was found tolerably 

 abundant at Cape York and the adjacent islands, by the members 

 of the Chevert Expedition in 1875. A nest of this species now 

 before me, taken by Mr. George Masters, at Warrior Island on 

 the 27th of June 1875, is a deep cup-shaped structure, composed 

 of the dried skeletons of leaves, held together with spiders' webs 

 and neatly lined inside with fine wiry grasses, the whole exterior 

 surface being covered with thin, broad strips of perfectly white 

 semi-transparent paper-like bark of a Melaleuca, which gives it a 

 very beautiful appearance. Exterior diameter three inches and 

 one-eighth, depth two inches ; internal diameter one inch and 

 three-quarters ; depth one inch and a-half . The nest was attached 

 by the rim to the thin branches of a shrub about five feet from 

 the ground. The eggs were two in number, but four is the full 

 complement for a sitting, of a uniform pale bluish-green both 

 specimens giving exactly the same measurements, viz., 0'72 inch 

 in length, by 0-5 inch in breadth." (North, P.L.S., KS. TF., Vol. 

 ii., 2nd Series, p. 408.) 



Mr. Sharpe, (Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds. Vol. ix., p. 164) considers 

 this species identical with Zosterops a ventre blanc, Homb. et 

 Jacq., Voy. P61e Sud. Atlas, pi. 19, fig. 3, (1842). 



Hab. Cape York, Islands of Torres Straits. 



