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MELIPHAGIM5. 
GLYOIPHILA MODESTA, Gray. 
(G. subfasciata, Ramsay.) 
Plain-coloured. Honey-eater. 
Gray, P.Z.S., 1858, p. 174. 
“This species, although possessing nothing in its sombre plumage 
to recommend it, is certainly very interesting on account of its 
peculiarly shaped nest, being the only one of the Australian 
Meliphagidie that I have met with which constructs a dome-shaped 
nest. It is a neat structure, composed of strips of bark, spiders’ 
webs, and grass, and lined with tine grasses <fce. The opening 
at the side is rather large; but the nest itself is deep. The 
eggs I did not obtain ; but one taken from the oviduct of a bird 
is 0'75 inch in length and 05 inch in breadth, pure white, with a 
few dots of black sprinkled over the larger end. The nests were 
invariably placed among the drooping branches of a species of 
Acacia, always overhanging some creek or running water.” 
(Ramsay, P.Z.S., 1868, p. 365.) 
ILab. Cape York, Rockingham Bay, South Coast New Guinea. 
{Ramsay.) 
Genus STIGMATOPS, Gould. 
STIGMATOPS OCULARIS, Gould. 
Brown Honey-eater. 
Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Yol. i., sp. 304, p. 500. 
For the nest and several sets of eggs of this bird I am indebted 
to Mr. George Barnard of Coomooboolaroo, Duaringa, Queensland. 
The nest is a very neat cup-shaped structure, outwardly composed 
of strips of bark and grasses, held together with the nests of spiders 
and lined inside with finer grasses, the downy seeds of some 
composite plant, and hair. The one now before me was attached 
to the thin twigs of an orange tree in Mr. Barnard’s garden, 
within a few feet of the ground. It measures exteriorly two inches 
in diameter by one inch and a-half in depth, internal diameter one 
