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to the root into the flower, it gets powdered with pollen, which gets stuck less on 
the feathers than just in the wedge-shaped part of the upper-bill. When the bird 
visits the next flower the projecting pistil glides very easily along the bill up towards 
the forehead, and the fecundation has every chance of succeeding. 
It may be added that up here in the north-west we did not hear the buzzing 
music of the wings from insects as, for instance, in our sallows in the spring. 
Besides the Hucalyptus flowers, the extended flowers of mistletoe that was 
general in certain places were also the objects of similar visits of the smaller Ptilotis- 
species. 
Gliciphila fasciata fasciata GourLp 
Is 19TL 
I 
Math. handl.; n:r. 758. 2 SS ad: Meda, Kimb. 4/3 (moult.), 19 
Moulting. — Specimen no. 1 above is clearly moulting in back and breast, 
but no. 2 does not appear to be in moulting. However, it has a worn plumage, and 
it is possible that it is about to have a winter moulting. 
Ecological. — The brown honey-eater was found by me on the 2nd of May, 
living at a creek filled with water in the neighbourhood of Meda. The interesting 
nest (the 2nd of May), out of which one of the birds flew, was hanging in the top 
of a branch over the water as if in a short piece of cord. It was dome-shaped, had 
a side-entrance, and was built of pieces of outer-bark (description page 27). There 
was one white egg, yet without clear spots. 
Certhionyx rufogularis rufogularis GovuiDp. 
Math. handl. n:r 762. 9£2 ad. Derby, Kimb. ?!/10 1910, worn plumage; 2 ad. Mowla Downs, ibid. ?3/,: 
1911, worn plumage; 5 SS ad. 2 ad. Nooncanubah, Fitzroy r. !9/12, !3/12, 3/12, moult.; 73/12 1910, new plumage: 
31, ”/iv 1911, not all the tailfeathers dropped, one with worn plumage. 
Variants. — One specimen is different, having splashes of rusty red on the 
lower part of the breast. 
Moulting. — Some specimens in moulting which as a rule comes in Dec. 
Ecological. — The species was rather frequently seen in the localities named 
above. In Mowla Downs on the 3rd of Dec. I found a deep cup-shaped nest on 
which the birds were building. It was hanging rather high in the top of a branch 
in a bauhiniatree quite exposed to view, and was constructed of cottonlike vegetable 
hairs, the white colour of which made it visible from a distance. 
Stigmatops indistineta perplexa MATH. 
Math. handl. n:r 765. I ad. Mowla Downs, Kimb. ?!/, 1910, slightly moult.; 2 juv.. J ad. Beagle 
Hays Dampier 1. 2/7, "7 TOT. 
Juvenal. — Of these the female (Beagle bay) is considerably smaller and has 
more olive all over than the male specimens. 'The throat and breast especially of 
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