PTILOTIS. 
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PTILOTIS FLAVICOLLIS, Vieillot. 
(P. jlavigula, Gould.) 
Yellow-throated Honey-eater. 
Gould, Handhk. Bds. Ausl., Yol i. sp. 310, p. 508. 
I have never seen the nest of this species, but extract the 
following description from Mr. Gould’s Handbook, Yol. i., 
p. 508 : — “ The nest of this species, which is generally placed 
in a low bush, differs very considerably from those of all the other 
Honey-eaters, with which I am acquainted, particularly in the 
character of the material forming the lining; it is the largest and 
warmest of the whole, and is usually formed of ribbons of stringy- 
bark, mixed witli grass and the cocoons of spiders; towards the 
cavity it is more neatly built, and is lined internally with opossum 
or kangaroo fur ; in some instances the hair-like material at the 
base of the large leaf stalks of the tree-fern is employed for the 
lining, and in others there is merely a flooring of wiry grasses and 
fine twigs.” 
Eggs two or three in number for a sitting, of a pale fleshy-buff, 
spotted and blotched on the larger end with round deep chestnut- 
red markings, together with irregular-shaped spots of very faint 
chestnut-brown, in other specimens the markings are of the 
latter colour very minutely and evenly dispersed over the surface 
of the shell, together with a few obsolete spots of dark lilac on the 
larger end. 
Two specimens in the Dobroyde Collection taken near Hobart, 
in September, measure as follows :—length (A) 0'!)G x 0-G7 inch ; 
(B) 0 - 95 x 0‘67 inch. 
Hah. New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania. 
(Ramsay.) 
PTILOTIS LEUCOTIS, Latham. 
White-eared. Honey-eater. 
Gould, Handhk. Bds. Ausl., Yol. i., sp. 311, p. 510. 
This bird is widely distributed over the eastern and southern 
portions of the continent of Australia, and is likewise found in the 
