a piece of rope and then drew the limb to the main trunk and 
secured it, this brought the nest nearer, but above my head, so 
when I climbed farther up I could reach it, there were three eggs 
in the nest, but I broke one before reaching the ground.” 
The above nest is an open shallow structure rather irregularly 
and roughly formed on the exterior, but neatly rounded on the 
inside, and is composed entirely of the long pliant stems of a species 
of Kennedy a, it measures exteriorly seven inches and a-Ualf in 
diameter by three inches and a-half in depth, internal diameter 
four inches, depth one inch and three-quarters. Eggs three in 
number for a. sitting, oval in form of a dull apple-green, regularly 
spotted and blotched over the surface of the shell with different 
shades of reddish and purplish-brown, underlying blotches of 
purple appearing as if beneath the shell. Length (A) 1'25 x 0-0, 
(B) l - 25 x 0'89 inch. These eggs are paler, but more heavily 
blotched than the specimens taken by Mr. It. D. Fitzgerald on the 
Richmond lliver in November 1887, and subsequently described 
by him in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South 
Wales, \ol. ii., Second Series, 1887, p. 970. 
11a!). Eastern Queensland, Eastern New South Wales. 
PTILOTIB FLAVICOLLIS, Vieillol. 
Yellow-throated Honey-eater. 
Gould , Handbk. Jidn. Auslr., Yol. i., sp. 310, p. 508. 
The habitat of the Yellow-throated Honey-eater is confined 1 
believe to Tasmania and the islands of Bass’s Straits, although it 
has been recorded from Victoria, I have never met with this bird 
anywhere on the mainland of Australia. Dr. L. Holden has 
kindly forwarded a nest and two eggs of this species, which he 
found on the 29th of November, 1890, at Circular Head, on the 
North-west Coast of Tasmania, accompanied with the following 
note : — “ The nest of P. Jlavicollis, I send you was built against 
the main stem of a low, scraggy, and scanty box shrub, about 
three feet and a-half from the ground ; the shrub was draped with 
