ACANTHOGENYS. 
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Hob. Derby, N.W. Australia, Port Darwin and Port Essington, 
Gulf of Carpentaria, Cape York, South Coast New Guinea. 
{Ramsay.) 
ENTOMOPHILA RUFIGULAltlS, Gould. 
Red-throated Honey-eater. 
Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 328, p. 533. 
“ This species is found commonly dispersed all over the Gulf of 
Carpentaria country. It has been found breeding in the 
neighbourhood of Normanton and Georgetown, during the months 
from September to March. The nest is a round, open, and neat 
cup-shaped structure, usually slung by the rim between forked 
twigs. The one before me, sent by Mr. Armit, was taken from a 
branch of an Erythrina. It is composed of fine grasses, matted 
outside with white ‘ cobwebs,’ and lined with fine grasses alone. 
It is rather a deep nest, being three inches and a-luilf long by two 
inches in diameter. The eggs are usually two, but sometimes three 
in number, of a pearly-white, rather thickly spotted with bright 
reddish-brown. Length 064 x 049 inch in diameter at the thicker 
end. The young on leaving the nest have all the upper surface 
brown, and all the under surface white ; the outer webs of the 
wing quills margined with olive-yellow.” {Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S. 
W., Yol. ii., p. 111.) 
Uab. Derby, N.W. Australia, Port Darwin and Port Essington, 
Gulf of Carpentaria, Cape York. {Ramsay.) 
Genus ACANTHOGENYS, Gould. 
ACANTHOGENYS 11UFIGULARIS, Gould. 
Spiny-cheeked Honey-eater. 
Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Yol. i., sp. 329, p. 534. 
This bird is a lover of the scrubby portions of the interior of 
Australia, and the Mallee country of Victoria and South Australia. 
