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MELIPHAGIDffi. 
MELITHREPTUS CHLOROPSIS, Gould. 
Swan River Honey-eater. 
Gould, Handbk. Uds. Aust., Yol. i., sp. 350, p. 570. 
“ The nest of this species is usually suspended from the small 
branches near the top of the gum-trees, where the foliage is 
thickest, which renders it extremely difficult to detect. A nest 
found by Gilbert in October, was formed of sheep’s wool and small 
twigs; another found by him in November was attached to a 
small myrtle-like tree, in a thick gum forest, not more than three 
feet from the ground ; both these nests contained three eggs, nine 
and a-half lines long by six and a-half lines broad, of a deep 
reddish-buff, thinly spotted all over, but particularly at the larger 
end with dark reddish-brown, some of the spots being indistinct, 
while others were very conspicuous.” {Gould, Handbk. JJds. Aust., 
Yol. i., p. 570. 
Sab. Western Australia. 
MELITHREPTUS ALBIGULARIS, Gould. 
White-throated Honey-eater. 
Gould, Handbk. Uds. Aust-, Vol. i., sp. 351, p. 571. 
“This species, which inhabits the northern and eastern parts 
of Australia, is very abundant on the Cobourg Peninsula. The 
nest, which is always suspended to a drooping branch, and which 
swings about with every gust of wind, is formed of dried narrow 
strips of the soft bark of the Melaleuca. The eggs which are 
generally two in number, are of a light salmon colour, blotched 
and freckled with reddish-brown, and are about nine lines long by 
six lines broad.” {Gould, Handbk. lids. Aust., Yol. i., p. 571.) 
Sab. Derby, N. W. Australia, Port Darwin and Port Essington, 
Gulf of Carpentaria, Cape York, Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, 
Wide Bay District, South Coast New Guinea. {Ramsay.) 
