PTILOTIS. 
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The months of September, October, November, and December 
constitute the breeding season of this species. 
Ilab. Victoria and South Australia, West and South-West 
Australia. {'Ramsay.') 
PTILOTIS PLUMP LA, Gould. 
Plumed Ptilotis. 
Gould, HandbJc. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 315, p. 516. 
“The small, elegant, cup-sliaped nest of this species, is suspended 
from a slender horizontal branch, frequently so close to the ground 
as to be reached by the hand ; it is formed of dried grasses lined 
with soft cotton-like buds of flowers. The breeding season 
continues from October to January; the eggs being two in number, 
teu lines long by seven lines broad, of a pale salmon colour, with 
a zone of deeper tint at the larger end, and the whole freckled 
with minute spots of a still darker hue.” (Gould, Ilandbk. Bds. 
Aust., Vol. i., p. 516.) 
Ilab. Port Darwin and Port Essington, Gulf of Carpentaria, 
Interior, Victoria and South Australia, West and South-West 
Australia. [Ramsay.) 
PTILOTIS PENICILLATA, Gould. 
White-plumed Honey-eater. 
Gould, Randblc. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 318, p. 519. 
This is the most common species of Honey-eater in the 
neighbourhood of Melbourne, in Victoria, and Wellington and 
Dubbo, in New South Wales, and is equally plentiful throughout 
South Australia. The nest of this species is a neat cup-shaped 
structure, outwardly composed of grasses, spiders’ nests, and the 
woolly portions of the dead flowers of the “ Cape weed,” lined inside 
with the same material and horsehair ; in some instances a few 
feathers being worked into the side ; it is usually suspended by 
