TAWNY-FRONTED HONEY-EATER. 
open country, particularly where the mallee shoots were a few inches above 
the stubble. This bird’s long beak and beautifully marked slender body 
surely give it a liigh place for gracefulness even among Honey-eaters, and its 
song is certainly the most delicate bird music one would wish to hear. Its 
four notes, each repeated three times in an ascending chord, for tenderness 
and delicacy stand alone.” 
Mr. Tom Carter’s note reads : “ The Western Tawny-crowned Honey- 
eater is given in your 1912 ‘ Reference List ’ as occurring through West 
Australia. It is a common species through most of the south-west, but not 
so numerous on the coastal areas as the Spinebill. It is more of an inland 
species, although the birds are common on the open, scrubby, coastal hills 
near Albany, and have been noted on similar country about the Margaret 
River. They do not seem to like heavy timber, and were never seen in the 
Gascoyne on North-west Cape districts. They are fairly common on open 
scrubby land as the sand-plain east and south-east of Broome Hill. The birds 
are very restless and £ fidgetty ’ in their habits. The breeding-season is late, 
and extends from August into February. The nests are very bulky for 
Honey-eaters, and usually built in the top of a low thick bush, about two 
feet above the ground. The nesting material is mostly of broad, flat grasses 
or rushes and strips of bark, rough sort of stuff, and in the actual lining 
material there is little difference. Two eggs is the usual clutch, I do 
not recollect having seen three. January 14, 1907. Two incubated eggs. 
February 3, 1907. Two fresh eggs. July 26, 1908. Birds noted with 
building material in beaks. Oct. 11, 1910. Small young in nest. Feb. 
17, 1912. Unusually great numbers (above notes made at Broome Hill). 
January 19, 1910. Two fresh eggs at Albany.” 
Whitlock wrote from the Stirling Ranges : “ Was the commonest bird 
of the sand plains. I found many nests. AH were within a few inches of the 
ground, and could hardly be called concealed. . . This species seems to 
be able to protect its nests from the visits of the various species of Cuckoo 
inhabiting the ranges, as, despite the number of nests I found, none contained 
a Cuckoo’s egg.” 
Alexander wrote: “ Resident (in the Perth district). Uncommon, but 
met with at times in fairly open country.” 
This bird was apparently first figured in a printed work in the second 
(or third) edition of Lewin’s work, but no Latin name was given to it. Then 
Vigors and Horsfield described it in their memorable essay as Meliphaga 
fulvifrons, and soon afterwards Swainson proposed a new genus, Glidphila, 
which was at once taken up by Gould, and the species became well known 
under the name Gliciphila fulvifrons. When Gray examined the Lambert 
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