THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
seen at a flooded flat about 28 miles inland from Point Cloates, and another in 
some scrub among the coast hills. No eggs were ever procured, although an 
empty new nest was found that apparently belonged to this species. 
“ In the south-west this species is fairly well distributed. The birds are 
very common in the thick Peppermint scrub that grows down to the beach 
near Albany. They were also observed at the Margaret and Vasse Rivers and 
Lake Muir, also at Kellerberin. They are not common about Broome Hill, 
but a few could always be heard or seen in the thick scrub and ‘ suckers ’ 
growing on a high stony ridge on my land. I shot one there on September 
8th, 1910, that contained eggs in an advanced state. They seem to sing all 
the year roimd and like thick scrubby places.” 
Mr. J. P. Rogers wrote: “At Marngle Creek this species w r as not numerous, 
but on the Fitzroy and Jegurra Creek they were very numerous. At Mungi 
they were very rare. Is a common species in most parts of West Kimberley, 
North-west Australia. From Melville Island Rogers wrote : “ Cooper’s Camp, 
Nov. 20th, 1911. Tins species was very numerous at the outer edges of the 
mangrove thicket that is on the landward side. Males are much larger than 
the females. On the north side of the island this species w r as not so numerous 
as at Cooper’s Camp.” 
Hall published Rogers’ earlier notes sent from the Derby district, in which 
he stated: “ The notes are musical. One bird came to a bush near my camp 
on February 4th, 1900, and sang at intervals for a few minutes.” 
Whitlock WTote from the Pilbarra Goldfield: “ Not uncommon on the 
upper Coongan, but becoming scarcer down the river and on the de Grey. One- 
specimen I shot was remarkably small, hardly larger than a Myzomela. Its 
favourite haunt was in thickets growing in the shingly bed of the river where 
flood debris w r as abundant, and where permanent pools w r ere to be found. Here 
its song was to be heard from early sunrise to sunset. The tiny little nests are 
difficult to find. Several I discovered were attached to wisps of herbage 
brought down by the floods, another w’as in a tall, cylindrical dead bush, where 
no one would have dreamed of looking for it. I was rather unlucky as regards 
eggs. Several clutches were quite unblowable, owing to their advanced state 
of incubation. Under such conditions one is practically helpless with such 
fragile eggs. It was a pretty sight to see these little Honey-eaters extracting 
their food from the gorgeous flowers of the Stmt pea — the latter a feature 
in themselves, and worth much travelling to view in their natural surroundings 
of rugged and dark basaltic rocks.” 
G. F. Hill WTote from Kimberley, North-west Australia: “A very 
common bird in all localities on the mainland and islands. Eggs w r ere taken 
from the beginning of March to the end of June from nests built in many species 
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