BANDED I-IONEY-EATER. 
upper tail-coverts bully-white; upper wing-coverts and flight-quills dark brown 
with rufous margins to the feathers ; tail-feathers alsu dark brown with pale 
edgings ; lores and feathers round the eye blackish ; cheeks and ear-coverts lemon- 
yellow with a dark blotch behind the latter; chin and throat whitish tinged with 
lemon-j'ellow, the feathers on the chin have hair-like tips; a narrow band of dull 
chestnut across the fore-neck ; b repast similar to the throat; abdomen, sides of 
body, and under tail-coverts silky-white ; axillaries and under wing-coverts like the 
breast; under-surface of flight-quills hair-brown ; lower aspect of tail similar 
but somewhat darker. Collected at Derby, North-west Australia, on the 4th 
of June, 1900. 
Immature female. Top of head, sides of head, and nape rust-brown with the appearance 
of two or three black feathers on the crown and nape ; back and scapulars chestnut; 
rump dusky-grey ; upper tail-coverts dull white ; upper wing-coverts dark brown 
with pale edgings ; flight-quills also dark brown, inclining to blackish-brown 
on the inner secondaries, with rusty margins on the outer webs; tail-feathers 
similar narrowly edged with white ; lores and feathers surrounding the oyo blackish ; 
ear-coverts pale lemon-yollow ; chin, throat, and sides of neck dull white; a 
narrow irregular dark band across the upper breast; lower breast, abdomen, sides 
of body, under tail-coverts, axillaries, and under wing-coverts cream-white ; under¬ 
surface of flight-quills dark hair-brown with pale rufous margins ; lower aspect 
similar to its upper surface. Eyes chestnut; feet slate-grey ; bill black. Collected 
at Skull Creek, Cape York, North Queensland, on the 6th of December, 1912. 
Immature male. Top of head, including the fore-head and sides of the crown to the level 
of the eye, nape, hind-neck, and mantle cinnamon ; back pale chestnut inclining to 
grey, with a tinge of chestnut on the rump ; upper tail-coverts whitish; upper 
wing-coverts dusky-brown fringed with cinnamon, becoming almost uniform on 
the bastard-w r ing and primary-coverts ; flight-quills blaekish-brow r n edged with 
rust-colour on the outer webs ; tail blackish-browm with pale edgings to the 
feathers ; lores blackish-browm ; sides of face lemon-yellow with a dark spot behind 
the ear-coverts ; chin, throat, fore-neck, and side of neck w r hite very slightly tinged 
with lemon-yellow; a narrow rust-browm band across the breast; abdomen and 
sides of body silky-w T lute with grey bases to the feathers on the latter ; under tail- 
coverts, axillaries, and under wung-coverts w r hite; under-surface of flight-quills 
dark brown; under aspect of tail similar but rather darker. Collected at Derby, 
Northwest Australia, on the 4th of June, 1900. 
Nest In a 6mall white-w'ood bush about 7 feet high. Height from ground 7 feet. The 
nest was placed in a tliin fork near the top of the bush and was built of fine strips 
of grass and paper-bark. The outside of nest was lightly covered with unravelled 
cocoons and cobwebs. Is lined with rootlets. Was firmly fastened to the branches 
with cobwebs and pieces of unravelled cocoons. Dimensions : outside, 2A by 
2 ig by ItV ; inside, If by ItV by 1 in. deep (Derby). 
Eggs. Two eggs is the usual number laid for a clutch. A pair taken at Borroloola, 
Macarthur River, Northern Territory, on the 6th of January, 1914, is of a buffy-wiute 
ground-colour, and becoming darker towards the larger end of each egg, where 
a band of very minute and cloudy-brownish markings form an indistinct zone. 
Ovals in shape, and rather sharply pointed at the smaller ends ; surface of shell 
smoothly granular, and without gloss. 15 min, by 11. 
Nest. A small open cup-shaped structure, usually suspended between forks at the 
extremity of a small leafy branch of a tree or bush. Composed of strips of bark 
and fine grasses, bound together with cobwebs. Lined with fine rootlets and grass. 
Dimensions over all: 2 inches across by If inches deep. The egg cavity is If 
inches across, by about 1 inch in depth. 
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