THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
quite unlike any other genus of Honey-eaters. We afterwards found them 
to be fairly common in the scrub, but always high up in the leaves, where 
only the trained eye of one accustomed to look for such things can be expected 
to find them.” “ So far it is known to inhabit only the tropical scrubs 
bordering the Claudie River, which empties itself into Lloyd’s Bay, on the 
eastern side of the Cape York Peninsula.” 
It is of great importance to note that this bird does not occur at Cape 
York proper, but only in the Claudie River district. And it has representatives 
in New Guinea and the Aru Islands, which also puzzled ornithologists as to 
its relations. 
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