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The above nest is an open shallow structure rather irregularly 
and roughly formed on the exterior, but neatly rounded on the 
inside, and is composed entirely of the long pliant stems of a species 
of Kennedy a , it measures exteriorly seven inches and a-half in 
diameter by three inches and a-half in depth, internal diameter 
four inches, depth one inch and three-quarters. Eggs three in 
number for a sitting, oval in form of a dull apple-green, regularly 
spotted and blotched over the surface of the shell with different 
shades of reddish and purplish-brown, underlying blotches of 
purple appearing as if beneath the shell. Length (A) 1-25x0-9, 
(B) 1*25 x 089 inch. These eggs are paler, but more heavily 
blotched than the specimens taken by Mr. It. D. Fitzgei’ald on the 
ltichmond River in November 1887, and subsequently described 
by him in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South 
Wales, Vol. ii., Second Series, 1887, p. 970. 
llah. Eastern Queensland, Eastern New South Wales. 
Ptilotis flavicollis, Vieillot. Yellow-throated Honey-eater. 
Gould , Handbk . Bds. Austr ., Vol. i., sp. 310, p. 508. 
The habitat of the Yellow-throated Honey-eater is confined 1 
believe to Tasmania and the islands of Bass's Straits, although it 
has been recorded from Victoria, I have never met with this bird 
anywhere on the mainland of Australia. Dr. L. Holden has 
kindly forwarded a nest and two eggs of this species, which he 
found on the 29th of November, 1890, at Circular Head, on the 
North-west Coast of Tasmania, accompanied with the following 
note : — “The nest of P. flavicollis, I send you was built against 
the main stem of a low, scraggy, and scanty box shrub, about 
three feet and a-half from the ground ; the shrub was draped with 
vines of a climbing plant, some alive and green, others dead and 
brown, the latter serving to conceal by similarity the exterior of 
the nest. The Yellow-throated Honey-eater has been seen here 
gathering hair for its nest from the backs of cows and a pony 
belonging to me.” The nest is an open cup shaped structure, 
outwardly composed of strips of bark, grasses, weeds, and sheep’s 
wool, all matted together, and thickly lined inside with a layer 
of cow-hair, the walls of the nest being very much thicker than 
any I have met with belonging to other members of the genus 
Ptilotis , it measures exteriorly five inches in diameter, by three 
inches and a-lialf in depth ; internal diameter two inches and a- 
half, by two inches in depth. 
Eggs in this instance, two in number for a sitting, oval in form 
of a fleshy -buff ground colour, becoming darker towards the larger 
end where they are irregularly spotted with rounded clouded 
markings of reddish -chestnut, and underlying spots of purple 
appearing as if beneath the surface of the shell. Length (A) 
0-95 x 0*7; (B) 091 x 0-7 inch. 
Hab. Tasmania, Islands of Bass’s Straits. 
