222 
MELIPIIAGID/E. 
tendrils of flowers, narrow threads of bark, and fine wiry fibrous 
roots matted together with Zamia wool, forming a thick body, 
which is warmly lined with feathers and Zamia wool mingled 
together ; the external diameter of the nest is three inches, and 
that of the cavity about one inch and a-quarter. The eggs are 
two in number, nine lines long by six and a-lialf broad ; their 
ground colour in some instances is a delicate bulf, in others a very 
delicate bluish-white, with a few specks of reddish-brown distributed 
over the surface, these specks being most numerous at the larger 
end, where they frequently assume the form of a zone. The 
breeding season is in October.” (Gould, Uandbk. lids. Aust., Vol. 
i., p. 553.) 
Rob. West and South-West Australia. (Ramsay) 
Genus MYZOMELA, Vigors and Horsficld. 
MYZOMELA SANGTJINOLENT A, Latham. 
Sanguineous Honey-eater. 
Gould, Uandbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 341, p. 555. 
“ The Sanguineous Honey-eater breeds during the months of 
October, November, and December, making a neat but somewhat 
scanty nest of stringy-bark, seldom with any other lining. It is 
suspended between a fork or twigs at the end of some bough in 
a bush, or among the upright and topmost branches of the 
Melaleuca. The nest is perhaps smaller than that of any other 
Australian bird, being in some instances scarcely one inch and a- 
half in diameter by one inch in depth. The eggs are two, seldom 
three, in number, of a delicate white strongly marked with reddish- 
and yellowish-brown spots, more numerous at the larger end. 
They are from six to seven lines in length, and from five to six 
lines in breadth.” (Ramsay, Ibis, 1865, p. 304.) 
The markings on these eggs frequently become confluent on the 
larger end, and assume the form of a zone. Two sets taken at 
