YELLOW HONEY-EATER. 
larger ends. Swollen ovals in shape. Surface of shell smooth and slightly glossy. 
21 by 14 mm. 
Nest. A cup-shaped structure—comparatively shallow ; composed of strips of bark and 
grasses: and generally placed in a bush or small tree, sometimes within five feet 
of the ground. 
Breeding-months. August to November. 
Gould had only one specimen, procured by one of the officers of HALS. 
“ Beagle ” while employed on the north coast, and gave no notes concerning 
its habits. 
Ramsay afterwards wrote : “A very beautiful species, and perhaps the 
most common bird about Cardwell; frequently seen clinging to the flowers 
of the bananas and plantains in cultivation round the houses ; when among 
the blossoms of the Acacice they are scarcely discernible, so closely does their 
yellow plumage match the tint of the blossoms.” 
Macgilhvray’s notes read: “ First noted at the Jardine River, Cape York, 
where they were common in the open forest and along the river, and where 
then hold, loud, and clear whistling note was constantly heard, d, his 
greyish-brown; upper mandible brownish-black, lower mandible dark brown ; 
legs yellowish-olive. Stomach contents, honey and insects.” 
“ Yellow Honey-Eaters were not common, and were only occasional 
in the open forest on the Claudie. They were common on the Archer.” 
McLennan on his King River, Northern Territory, simply wrote : 
“ Pera Head, 4/7/15. A few birds noted.” 
Campbell and Barnard, in the Rockingham Bay account, were almost 
as laconic. “ The Jlava, with its merry ‘ Whee-a, whee-a,’ notes is a favourite. 
It is found throughout scrubs, and always frequents the orchards and gardens 
when flowers are out. Its pretty nest, composed of brownish shreds of bark, 
was also taken and photographed.” 
In my “ Reference List,” 1912, I described 
Ptilotis Jlava addenda. 
“ Differs from P. J. Jlava in its larger size and greener tint above and 
below. Inkerman, Queensland.” 
Mid- Queensland. 
and these were admitted in my 1913 "List” with transference to the genus 
Broadbentia. 
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