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MELIPIIAGID/E. 
of a deeper tint, they form an ill-defined zone. Lengtli (A) 0-78 
x 0-57 inch ; (B) 076 x 054 inch ; (C) 0-75 x 0-54 inch. 
Hab. Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 
Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New South Wales, 
Interior, Victoria and South Australia. (Ramsay .) 
MELITIIREPTUS GULARIS, Gould. 
Black-throated Honey-eater. 
Gould, Handblc. Bds. Ausl, Vol. i., sp. 348, p. 566. 
In a list of birds met with in North-eastern Queensland, 
published in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 
Dr. Ramsay writes as follows regarding this bird :— 
“ This species appears to be plentiful, but not in the immediate 
vicinity of the coast. It is not rare about Maryborough, 
and is also found on the Upper Herbert. It has considerable 
powers of song, which may be heard often at daylight in the 
morning. While camped on the banks of the Gregory, a pair of 
these birds frequented a Wattle-tree (Acacia) near to our ‘tent ’ 
(a sheet of bark !), and delighted us every morning for many days 
by pouring out their varied and pleasing song, which often lasted 
for ten or fifteen minutes without ceasing. I have since heard 
their song under more comfortable circumstances ; and my brother 
and I at once recognized our old friends. The nest and eggs are 
similar, but slightly larger than those of M. lunulatus; eggs two 
in number, pale salmon-pink with deep reddish-salmon dots on the 
larger end; length 0 - 73 x 0'55 inch. The nest is cup-shaped, 
slung by the rim between twigs at the end of a leafy bough, and 
composed of fine grasses and strips of bark webbed together with 
spiders’ nests.” ( Ramsay , P.Z.S., 1876, p. 118.) 
ITab. Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 
New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. ( Ramsay .) 
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