PLE( T< >RHYNCHA LANC E( )LA T A (Gould). 



LANCEOLATE HONEY-EATER. 



f M 1 1 B native dome of this species is in the Liverpool Plains and the country near there. Away 

 J- from these regions it is not found, and is nowhere abundant. It is almost always found 

 either alone or in pairs, on Acacia or Eucalyptus trees. If it were not for its loud whistle, it would 

 he almost impossible t<> discover the hird, since, for a great part of the time, it sits without movement 

 in the thick foliage at the top of high trees. 



The nest, generally suspended from a horizontal branch of a Casuarina near a stream, is formed 

 of grasses, joined together with wool and lined with soft tihres. The eggs are of a pinkish-white 

 colour, with small specks of reddish-buff ahout the larger end. They are two in number, and are 

 eleven and a half lilies lone by eisdit lines broad. 



This hird rears two broods in the year. 



Tlie crown of the head and the hack of the neck are greyish-white, with a longitudinal mark 

 of black down the centre of each feather; throat and under surface, greyish-white, the stem of each 

 feather being pure white ; hack and wings, greyish-brown, each feather margined with blackish-brown ; 

 tail, light brown; irides, hazel colour; hill, legs and feet, light bluish-grey. 



Total length, \) inches; bill, I inch; wings, 4^ inches; tail, 4£ inches; tarsi. I inch. 



Habitat: Interior of New South Wales. 



