BELL MINAH. 
seen young birds just out of the nest in May, and others about fouj- weeks old 
in October, also nests containing eggs and others being built tlu*ough October 
and Noverabec. November, however, is perhaps the principal breeding 
month.” 
S. W. Jackson has given a dehghtful account of the song of this bird in 
the Gosford scrubs which must be here noted, but the description is too long 
to be copied in this place. 
S. A. White has recorded from Mallacoota: “ Not plentiful; restricted 
to a very small area, where they kept up their clear, bell-like note incessantly. 
Very pugnacious, chasing all birds, both large and small, that come in their 
way, drooping their wings and fluffing out their feathers as a sign of combat. 
They are very like the Myzantha in habits.” 
H. L. White has also confirmed the curious fact of the extreme localisation, 
a small colony occupying an area of not more than 30 aci’es and apparently 
never moving, there being no other colony on the estate though there is plenty 
of similar country. 
I noted the Beaconsfield bird was darker, and therefore in my “ Reference 
List ” in 1912 arranged : 
Manorina melanophrys melanophrys (Latham). 
New South Wales. 
Manorina melanophrys yarra Mathews. 
“ Differs from M. m. melanophrys in its darker coloration above and below. 
(Beaconsfield), Victoria.” 
Victoria, 
and this was accepted unchanged in my 1913 “ List ” and no comment has 
been passed upon it; and Manorina melanophrys tweedi Mathews from the 
Tweed River, Northern New South Wales. 
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