YELLOW WHITE-EYE. 
occasionally in the mangroves but are not nearly so numerous as at Point 
Torment, King Sound, West Kimberley. On the 6th Mr. Lee, one of the 
owners of the saw mill here, brought me a nest of this bird containing one 
egg ; he said there were two, but he broke one and it was strongly incubated ; 
the nest was built in a mangrove overhanging a tidal creek. None of these 
birds were seen on the north side of the island, but there I was not among 
the mangroves. Here these birds stick very closely to the mangroves as at 
King Sound.” 
Mr. Tom Carter has written me : “ The Carnarvon White-eye is given 
in your 1912 “ Reference List ” as occurring through West Australia generally. 
As far as I know, its range, as at present determined, is from Carnarvon to 
the North-west Cape. Small flocks of these birds were often seen about 
Point Cloates and along the coast to the North-west Cape, in the winter 
months. In the mangroves about Carnarvon and near the North-west Cape 
they are common throughout the year. (There are no mangroves within 35 miles 
of Point Cloates, the nearest being a small patch at mouth of Yardie Creek.) 
I was never successful in finding a nest, but in February 1900 a male bird was 
shot in mangroves, near North-west Cape, that was evidently breeding, and on 
Sept. 17th, 1911, some were shot in mangroves at Carnarvon that were also 
breeeding. They breed in the mangroves in small parties of sis or ten, and 
move along rather rapidly, as they feed on insects in the dense foliage, uttering 
a chorus of low ‘ tinkling ’ notes all the time. Occasionally they may be 
seen in coastal scrub, but were never observed by me more than about a quarter 
of a mile from the beach. I have a note in my Point Cloates’ journal that 
unusually numerous and large flocks were observed there about June 7th, 1897.” 
Montague has written : “ Specimens (from Monte Bello Islands) agree 
with the type of Zosterops balsloni from Carnarvon, North- (i.e., Mid-) west 
Australia. The species is a small, dull-coloured form of Zosterops lutea Gould, 
though it would be more correct to look upon the type lutea as an island form 
of the far more widely distributed balstoni. It is much the most numerous 
bird inhabiting the Monte Bello Group, living upon all the islands, however 
small, where there is sufficient scrub to afford food and protection. It 
appears to be omnivorous in diet, feeding upon berries and seeds, and searching 
for insects amongst the foliage of the mangroves, in the vicinity of which it 
is always to be seen. The nesting season is probably in October. In August 
the males were in full song, and at the end of that month a half-constructed 
nest was discovered, suspended amongst the foliage of a dense Bruguiera, 
but it was not completed when I left.” 
Whitlock’s notes read : “ On arrival at Port Hedland last May (1908) 
I soon detected the notes of a Zosterops in the mangroves which I knew were 
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