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MELIPHAGIDiE 
interior and in Western Australia, but in these places it is by no 
means a common bird. I found it particularly plentiful among the 
low saplings in the neighbourhood of Mount Buninyong in Victoria, 
and also in the scrubby undergrowth bordering portions of the 
shores of Western Port Bay. 
The nest is a neat cup-shaped structure composed of bark and 
grasses, arid warmly lined inside with opossum fur, or cow hair; 
it is slung by the rim to the small horizontal twigs of a bush, and 
placed within a few feet of the ground. Eggs two in number for 
a sitting, of a uniform delicate flesh colour, with a few minute 
freckles of a darker tint on the larger end, but in some instances 
I have obtained specimens witli small but very distinct spots; 
others are nearly devoid of markings. 
A set taken by Mr. James Ramsay at Merule, measure, length 
(A) 0-84x0-62 inch; (B) 0-84 x 0-61 inch. Sets from Mr. K. 
H. Bennett’s and my own collection, give the same average 
measurements. 
Two eggs taken by Dr. Hurst at Newington on the Parramatta 
River, New South Wales, differ somewhat from each other; one 
specimen (A) is perfectly white, with a few minute reddish- 
chestnut markings towards the larger end, the other is of a fleshy, 
buff’ ground colour, with irregular shaped markings of reddish- 
chestnut eveidy dispersed all over, some of which appear as if 
beneath the surface of the shell. Length (A) 0-8 x 0'63 inch ; 
(B) 0-81 x 0-G3 inch. 
September and the four following months constitute the breeding 
season of this species. 
Hah. Derby, North-West Australia, Port Darwin and Port 
Essington, Gulf of Carpentaria, Wide Bay District, Richmond 
and Clarence Rivers Districts, New South Wales, Interior, 
Victoria and South Australia, West and South-West Australia, 
(liamsay.) 
