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Genus PHILEMON, Vieillot. 
PHILEMON CITREOGULARIS, Gould. 
Yellow-throated Friar Bir.d 
Gould, PTundbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 337, p. 549. 
This bird is universally dispersed throughout the whole interior 
of Australia, along the banks of rivers and water courses, from 
which it is seldom found far away. The nest is a cup-shaped 
structure, outwardly composed of dried grasses, lined inside with 
wool or fur, and placed at the extremity of a drooping branch, 
near or overhanging water. The eggs are three in number for a 
sitting. A set taken by Mr. K. H. Bennett, on the Lachlan 
River, in October 1882, are of a reddish-salmon ground colour, 
which is nearly obscured by very faint, clouded and streaky 
markings of reddish-purple, and purplish-grey, the latter colour 
appearing as if beneath the surface of the shell, the markings 
becoming darker towards the larger end. Length (A) 1T5 x 08 
inch ; (B) 1T2 x 0 - 8 inch ; (C) 1’03 x 075 inch. 
This species breeds during the months of September, October, 
and November. 
Hab. Cape York, Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay 
District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New South 
Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia. {Ramsay.) 
PHILEMON SORDIDUS, Gould. 
Sordid Friar Bird. 
Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 338, p. 550. 
“The nest of tliis species is very similar to that of the members 
of the genus Tropidorhynchus, being a cup-shaped structure of 
bark and grass, slung by the rim to the forks of twigs at the 
end of some horizontal or drooping branch. It is about half the 
size of that of Tropidorhynchus corniculatus, and equal to that of 
Philemon citreogularis, of which this species is but a northern 
