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MELIPHAGID®. 
A set taken near Hobart, Tasmania, in October 1885, measures 
as follows :•—length (A) 075 x 056 inch ; (B) 0-75 x 058 inch; 
(C) 074 x 0-57 inch. 
The breeding season of this species commences in August, 
and continues until the end of December. 
Hal. Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 
Districts, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, 
Tasmania. ( Ramsay.) 
Genus GLYCIPHILA, Swainson. 
GLYCIPHILA FULVIFRONS, Lewin. 
Fulvous-fronted Honey-eater. 
Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 301, p. 495. 
This bird is plentiful on the sterile and low scrubby Banksia 
covered tracts of land near the coast in the neighbourhood of 
Sydney, particularly at Botany and La Perouse. A nest of this 
species in the Australian Museum Collection, taken among others 
at Heathcote on the Illawarra Line by Dr. Hurst and myself on 
the 30th of October 1886, is a deep cup-shaped structure, outwardly 
composed of strips of bark and dried grasses, warmly lined with 
feathers, downy grass seeds, and velvety tufts from the Banksia 
cones ; it measures exteriorly three inches and a-half in diameter 
by three inches in depth, inside cavity two inches in diameter by 
two inches in depth. It was built close to the ground, beneath 
some ferns (Pteris aquilina), to which the rim of the nest was 
attached. The bird as is usual with this species, allowed itself to 
be nearly trodden upon before leaving the nest. Eggs two in 
number for a sitting, usually elongated in form, and varying 
considerably in the disposition of their markings. The eggs 
taken from the above nest are pure white with a zone of reddish- 
chestnut spots towards the larger end. Length (A) 0’85 x 0-59 
inch; (B) 084 x 0-6 inch. 
Two eggs in the Australian Museum Collection are elongated 
in form, white with a very few spots of chestnut-brown on the 
larger end. Length (A) 087 x 06 inch ; (B) 085 x 063 inch. 
