KUNGL. SV. VET. AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR. BAND 52. N:O |7. 107 
Ecological. — The yellow-tinted honey-eater was the most common of 
the honey-eaters on the continent. Its rouge call-note was very often heard, but the 
intermittently repeated singing sometimes also sounded from some blossoming Euca- 
lyptus tree. The birds used to climb about there, dipping their bills in the yellow 
flowers from which they got their food. In the leafage of the brushes the bird built 
its nest. On the löth and 18th of Jan. at Sunday Island, where the species was 
common, I also found two nests containing bluish white eggs. The nests were fastened 
in a shrub in a hanging position between two twias at the very end of the branch 
(see page 25; P. fasciata is a »lapsus calami», read P. flavescens). 
Ptilotis penicillata carteri CAMPB. 
Math. handl. n:r 791. JF ad. Mowla Downs, Kimb. !7/;1 1910, moult. (tail, wings). 
Ecological. — Was not rare round Mowla Downs, where on the lö5th of Dec. 
I found a nest, built in a little Eucalyptus tree and containing four eggs, white- 
coloured, and sprinkled with slight red-brown spots. 
Ptilotis keartlandi mungi MaATH. 
Math. handl. n:r 785. juv. Mowla Downs, Kimb. ?9/,1 1910. 
Was met with near the desert-mountains at Mowla Downs. Rare. 
Ptilotis ornata munna MaTH. 
Math. handl. n:r 786. J ad. St. Georges Range, Fitzroy r. !9/3 1911. 
Ptilotis unicolor darbiski MaATH. 
Math. handl. n:r 795. 'F ad, 2 22 Meda, Kimb. 4/5 1911, tail and back in moult.; 5/1, 25/11 1911, 
moult.; J ad. Beagle bay, Dampier 1. 19/7 1911, moult. (secondaries). 
Moulting. — The three specimens shot in May are all moulting to some extent. 
The last specimen seems to be an almost fully-moulted bird, now getting the se- 
condaries. 
Was not common. Found near the creeks at Meda and in Dampier land 
(Beagle Bay). 
Myzantha flavigula lutea GouLp. 
Math. handl. n:r 806. SJ ad. Mowla Downs, Kimb. £/12 1910; 2 ad., 2 SS ad. Nooncanbah, Fitzroy r 
1/12, moult., wing- (not tail-)feathers, worn plumage:; ?5/12, wing-feathers in moult.; 3/12, moult. almost complete; 
the wings half-moulted. 
Moulting. — The body is, as we see, fully-moulted before tail and wings. 
The moulting seems, however, to begin in the upper part of the body and the breast, 
and to continue in the wings and tail. The tail is the very last; in one specimen 
