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MELIPIIAGID iE. 
August and the five following months constitute the breeding 
season of this species. 
I I ah. Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 
Districts, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, 
Tasmania. (Ramsay ) 
MYZANTHA OBSCURA, Gould. 
Sombre Honey-eater. 
Gould, llandbk. Eds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 354, p. 570. 
“ This species inhabits Swan River and the south-western 
portion of Australia generally, where it beautifully represents tho 
Myzantha garrula of New South Wales. The nest is built on an 
upright fork of the topmost branches of the smaller gum-trees, 
and is formed of small dried sticks lined with soft grasses and 
feathers. Tho eggs are eleven and a-lialf lines long by nine lines 
broad, of a rich orange-buff, obscurely spotted and blotched with 
a deeper tint, particularly at the larger end.” {Gould, llandbk. 
Eds. Aust., Vol. i., p. 570.) 
JIab. West Australia. 
MYZANTHA FLAVIGTJLA, Gould, 
Yellow-throated Miner. 
Gould, llandbk. Eds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 350, p. 578. 
“ The nest is a neat round structure of fine twigs, occasionally 
ornamented with wool and the egg-bags of spiders &c., giving the 
outside a beautiful white appearance ; the inside is lined with 
hair of different kinds and wool, the inside diameter is three inches, 
the depth two and a-quarter inches; it is placed among the 
branches of trees and shrubs frequently near the ground. The 
o'^s are four or five for a sittin" of a rich salmon colour with 
dark salmon-red spots and dots all over the surface of the shell, 
