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MELIPHAGID.2E. 
Two eggs of this species in the Australian Museum Collection, 
are fleshy-white, minutely but thickly and uniformly freckled all 
over with reddish-brown markings, intermingled with others of a 
pale lilac. Length (A) 0 - 95 x 0'65 inch ; (B) 0-95 x O'Go inch ; 
(C) 0-96x0-65 inch. 
There is usually very little variation in the form or distribution 
of the markings on the eggs of this species, but in one exception 
a set taken by Mr. K. H. Bennett at Mossgiel in November, is 
much more rounded in form, and has large bran-like markings 
of faint chestnut and yellowish-brown intermingled with freckles 
and spots of pale lilac, the markings being mostly confined to the 
larger end. Length (A) 0-85 x 0 65 inch; (B) 0-86 x 0-67 inch ; 
(C) 0-82 x 0-67 inch. 
The months of September, October, and November constitute 
the breeding season of this species. 
I fab. Rockingham Bay, Wide Bay District, Dawson River, 
New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia. 
[Ramsay.) 
Genus MELIPHAGA, Lavin. 
MELIPHAGA PHRYGIA, Latham. 
Warty-faced Honey-eater. 
Gould, Ilandbk. Bds. Ausl., Vol. i., sp. 324, p. 527. 
“ The nest of this species is a neat cup-shaped structure composed 
of stringy-bark, and lined with finer shreds of the same material. 
It is two inches and a-lialf across inside, by one inch and a-half 
deep, and placed between the upright forks of some tall sapling, 
or upon a horizontal bough. They breed from October to 
December, or perhaps earlier in some localities, and lay two or 
three eggs, ten to eleven lines and a-half long, by eight lines and 
a-half to nine lines in breadth. These, when freshly taken, are 
certainly among the most beautiful I have ever met with , but 
