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vines of a climbing plant, some alive and green, others dead and 
brown, the latter serving to conceal by similarity the exterior of 
the nest. The Yellow-throated Honey-eater has been seen here 
gathering hair for its nest from the backs of cows and a pony 
belonging to me.” The nest is an open cup shaped structure, 
outwardly composed of strips of bark, grasses, weeds, and sheep’s 
wool, all matted together, and thickly lined inside with a layer 
of cow-hair, the walls of the nest being very much thicker than 
any I have met with belonging to other members of the genus 
Ptilolis, it measures exteriorly five inches in diameter, by three 
inches and a-half in depth; internal diameter two inches and a- 
lialf, by two inches in depth. 
Eggs in this instance, two in number for a sitting, oval in form 
of a llcshy-bufl' ground colour, becoming darker towards the larger 
end where they are irregularly spotted with rounded clouded 
markings of reddish-chestnut, and underlying spots of purple 
appearing as if beneath the surface of the shell. Length (A) 
095 x 07 ; (B) 091 x 07 inch. 
Hob. Tasmania, Islands of Bass’s Straits. 
CALYPTORHYNCIIUS SOLAN Dili, Temminek. 
Solander’s Black Cockatoo. 
Gould, Ilandbk. lids. Amir., Yol. ii., sp. 400, p. 18. 
This, the smallest species of Black Cockatoo, has a most exten¬ 
sive range of habitat, being found alike in the dense scrubs of the 
coastal ranges of tropical and eastern Australia, as well as the 
open forest lands on the eastern margins of the plains of Now 
South Wales. For an opportunity of examining an egg of this 
species I am indebted to Mr. E. H. Lane, who has taken several 
nests of this species near Dubbo, about two hundred and (ifty 
miles North-west of Sydney, and has also sent a skin of the bird 
for identification. The eggs were laid on the dry pulverized 
wood in the hollow main trunks of the Eucalypts, at a height 
varying from twenty to forty feet from the ground. Several of 
