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bough, or among the bushy tops of the young Eucalypti. The 
Turpentine trees (Syncarpia) also afford favourite sites for their 
nests, which are two inches and a-half across by two inches deep. 
The eggs are two in number, from eight and a-half to ten lines 
long, by six to seven lines in breadth ; the ground colour is of a 
deep yellowish-buff, with spots of a deeper and more reddish hue, 
and a few of faint lilac, in some sprinkled equally over the whole 
surface, in others crowded, or forming a zone at the larger end.” 
( Ramsay , Proc. Phil. Soc., Sydney, 1865, p. 321, pi. i., fig. 4.) 
Two sets taken at Dobroyde measure as follows: — No. 1, length 
(A) 0-76 x 0’54 inch ; (B) 0-76 x 0-55 inch ; No. 2, (C) 08 x 0'6 
inch ; (D) 0'78 x 058 inch. 
Hub. Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 
Dawson River, Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New 
South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia. (Ramsai/.) 
PTILOTIS CHRYSOPS, Latham. 
Yellow-faced Honey-eater. 
Gould, Handbh. Eds. A us/., Vol. i., sp. 320, p. 521. 
This Honey-eater is distributed over the whole of the southern 
portion of the Australian continent; I found it breeding in great, 
numbers on the shores of Western Port Bay in Victoria, and in the 
neighbourhood of Sydney it is one of the most common species of the 
genus Plilotis, inhabiting also all the parks and gardens in the 
City. A nest of this species in the Australian Museum Collection 
taken by Dr. Ramsay at Dobroyde, in September 1865, is a round 
cup-shaped structure, outwardly composed of fine strips of stringy- 
bark and moss, lined inside with grasses, and thin wiry bark fibre. 
Exterior measurements two inches and a-half in diameter, by one 
inch and three-quarters in depth ; internal diameter two inches, by 
one inch and a-half in depth. The rim of the nest is worked over 
a thin forked horizontal branch of a Eucalyptus. The nests of this 
species I found in the Gippsland Ranges were very beautiful 
structures, being built of fibrous bark, and the whole exterior 
