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MELIPHAGID/F. 
bark and lined with fur and hair, it is about 1 -5 inches high and 
three inches in diameter. The eggs taken in the Lachlan district 
were two in number, of a beautiful pale greenish-blue, with rich 
reddish dots, which cluster and form irregular patches towards the 
thicker end, but do not form a zone. Another specimen (2) has 
only a few faint reddish spots and a black dot here and there, 
very sparingly sprinkled over the surface, length (1) 082 x 06 
inch ; (2) 0 - 82 x OG2 inch. From Mr. K. II. Bennett’s Coll.” 
(Ramsay, P.L.S., H.S.W., Yol. vii., p. 414.) 
ITab. New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South 
Australia, West and South-west Australia. (Ramsay.) 
Genus ENTOMOPHILA, Gould. 
ENTOMOPIIILA ALBIGULARIS, Gould. 
White-throated Honey-eater. 
Gould, Ilandbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 327, p. 532. 
Gilbert remarks on the nidification of this species as follows :— 
“ Its small pensile nest is suspended from the extremity of a weak 
projecting branch in such a manner that it hangs over the water, 
the bird always selecting a branch bearing a sufficient number of 
leaves to protect the entrance from the rays of the sun ; in form 
the nest is deep and cup-like, and is composed of narrow strips of 
the soft paper-like bark of the Melaleuca, matted together with 
small vegetable fibres, and slightly lined with soft grass. I found 
a nest in the latter part of November, and another in the early 
part of December which contained three eggs in each, while a third 
procured towards the end of January had only two ; the eggs are 
rather lengthened in form and not very unlike those of Malurus 
cyaneus in the colour and disposition of thoir markings ; their 
ground colour being white, thinly freckled all over with bright 
chestnut-red particularly at the larger end ; they are nine lines 
long and six broad.” (Gould , Ilandbk, Bds. Aust., Vol. i., p. 532.) 
