390 APPENDIX. 



PTIL0TI8 LEUCOTIS, Latham. 

 White-eared Honey-eater. 

 Gould, Handbh. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 311, p. 510. 



A nest of this species, in the Australian Museum Collection, 

 taken by Dr. Hurst at Cabramatta, New South Wales, on the 

 1st of September, 1888, is a deep cup-shaped structure composed 

 of strips of bark, bark fibre, and spider's cocoons matted up 

 together, and lined inside at the bottom with cow-hair ; it 

 measures exteriorly three inches and a half in width by three 

 inches and a half in depth. The eggs were two in number, 

 fleshy-white, with small reddish-chestnut dots and spots sparingly 

 scattered over the larger end of the egg. This nest is similar to 

 others I have seen, but it was placed unusually high, being 

 attached to the topmost leafy twigs of a Melaleuca, about eighteen 

 feet from the ground. 



At Dobroyde I have also observed that the Yellow-breasted 

 Robins, Eopsaltria australis, towards the latter end of last seasoni 

 probably after having been repeatedly robbed, had taken to build 

 their nests on the horizontal boughs of the Eucalyptus, and Syn- 

 carpia at a height from twenty to thirty feet. This bird usually 

 places its nest within a few feet of the ground. 



Hab. Derby, North-West Australia, Port Darwin and Port 

 Essington, Gulf of Carpentaria, Wide Bay District, Richmond 

 and Clarence Rivers Districts, New South Wales, Interior, 

 Victoria and South Australia, West and South- West Australia. 

 (Bamsay.) 



PTILOTIS FLAVA, Gould. 

 Yellow Honey-eater. 

 Gould, Handhk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp., 317, p. 518. 



Mr. J. A. Boyd has kindly, forwarded the nest and eggs of this 

 species, which he found breeding on his plantation on the Herbert 

 River, Northern Queensland, on January 16th, 1890. The nest 



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