GLYCIPHILA. 
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A pair in tlie Dobroyde Collection taken at Bondi, in September 
1865, are in form rounded ovals, white with a few minute spots 
of chestnut-brown scattered over the surface. Length (A) 0'79 x 
0-G4 inch ; (B) 0-85 x 0-63 inch. 
In New South Wales this species commences to breed in July 
and continues the five following months. 
Hob. Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 
Districts, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, 
Tasmania, West and South-West Australia. (Ramsay.) 
GLYCIPHILA ALBIFRONS, Gould. 
■White-fronted Honey-eater. 
Gould, Ilandbk. Bds. Aust. Vol. i., sp. 302, p. 497. 
This bird is found in the Mallee country of Victoria and South 
Australia, and also in the interior of Now South Wales, over which 
it is very sparingly distributed. A nest of this species now before 
me taken by Mr. K. H. Bennett, together with the eggs, in 
October 1886, at Ivanlioe, is a very flat structure, the base being 
composed of very thin dried stems of a climbing plant, and grasses, 
matted together with a little wool, over which is placed a 
layer of wool intermingled with a few wiry blades of dried grass. 
Diameter of base, four inches ; the layer of wool, two inches and 
three-quarters ; and the whole structure one inch and a-half in 
thickness. There is just sufficient depression in the centre of the 
nest to keep the eggs in position. Eggs two in number for a 
sitting, of a light saturnine red ground colour; on the larger end 
they are thickly spotted, and in a few places blotched with irregular 
shaped markings of reddish-chestnut and chestnut-brown, but over 
the remainder of the surface the markings are much smaller, and 
very sparingly distributed ; on the larger end are obsolete spots 
of purplish-grey. Length (A) 0 - 78 x 0'57 inch; (B) 0'82 x 
0 - 58 inch. 
Hab. New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia, 
West and South-West Australia. (Ramsay.) 
