SPINY-CHEEKED HONEYEATER 355 
light rufous, and rest of under surface whitish with 
brown stripes. The tail is tipped with white, and 
this shows very conspicuously when the bird is flying. 
The nest is not at all of the type one would antici- 
pate from the bird's large size ; it is relatively small 
and of the type of that of the White-plumed Honey- 
eater, though, of course, it is bigger than that. Built 
of long, well-woven, whitish dried grass-stalks, in the 
form of a deep pensile cup, wider at the top than at 
the bottom, and lined with a little fur, it is slung 
in the smaller bushy boughs of a wild cherry or she-oak 
tree, or, on the coast sandhills, in a ti-tree. The 
birds appear to have two broods, as I have known of 
eggs in August and also at the end of September and 
beginning of October, which is the more usual time. 
One nest, found in leptospermum scrub at Ocean 
Grove, contained three fresh eggs on November 9th, 
1898. 
The eggs are buff-coloured, marked with deep 
brown and lilac spots, inclining to a zone round the 
larger end. 
GROUND-LARK 
Anthus australis australis 
In this species we meet with another bird which 
seems to take no harm from the spread of settlement ; 
it is found far and wide throughout the district, 
along every roadside, and wherever there is grassland 
or indeed even rough heath. It is not subject to 
