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MELIPHAGIDiE. 
A nest of this species in the Australian Museum Collection 
presented by Mr. K. H. Bennett of Mossgiel, is a round, cup¬ 
shaped, and somewhat scanty structure, composed of long dried 
grasses, and stalks of plants, the latter bent into position when 
green, and held together with spiders’ webs; a peculiarity in this 
and in all the nests that I have seen of this species, being that 
many of the grasses and stalks are not worked in horizontally 
around the structure, but perpendicularly, though not necessarily 
straight, from the rim to the bottom of the nest where they cross 
and recross each other. Exterior diameter, three and three- 
quarters of an inch, by two inches and a-half in depth ; internal 
diameter three inches by two inches in depth. The nest is 
attached by the rim to the thin branch of a tree, usually at no 
great height from the ground. Eggs two in number for a sitting. 
Two eggs taken by Mr. K. H. Bennett, at Mossgiel, in the month 
of October, are of a very pale yellowish-brown ground colour 
becoming darker towards the larger end, where they are deeply 
marked with dark umber-brown and slaty-brown spots, intermingled 
with others of a wood-brown and dark lilac tint, appearing as if 
beneath the surface of the shell. Length (A) 1-02 x 0 - 75 inch ; 
(B) 1-01 x 0-71. 
Specimens taken in the Wimmera District, Victoria, and on the 
Lachlan River, New South Wales, are all alike in colour and in 
the disposition of their markings. The breeding season commences 
in September and continues during the two following months. 
Hah. Dawson River, New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and 
South Australia, West and South-west Australia. ( Ramsay .) 
Genus ACANTHOCH2ERA, Vigors and Horsfield. 
ACANTHOCHiERA INAURIS, Gould. 
Tasmanian Wattled Honey-eater. 
Gould , Ilandbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 330, p. 536. 
This bird is generally dispersed over the whole of Tasmania, 
and is found breeding in the vicinity of Hobart. The nest 
