BIRDS OF THE BLOSSOMS AND OUTER FOLIAGE 
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21. Yellow-tufted Honey-eater Meliphaga melanops Latham 
mel'-an-ops—Gk, melas (melanos), black, Gk, ops, face. 
distribution. Southern Queensland to Victoria. 
notes. Also called Whisky and Yellow Whisker. Usually in flocks, 
frequenting all classes of country from the scrub-lands near the coast 
to the flowering eucalypts of the inland plains. Its call-note, “Chcop, 
cheop", is uttered while feeding or when flying from tree to tree. 
Food: insects, native fruits, and berries. 
nest. A cup-shaped structure, composed of strips of bark and 
grasses, usually decorated with cobwebs and spiders' egg-bags; lined 
with hair, fur, or plant down. Generally suspended from the branch 
of a bush or low shrub. 
eggs. Two or three, pinkish-buff, freely spotted with dark reddish- 
brown and purplish-grey markings. Breeding-season: June to Decem¬ 
ber. 
