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to four. The nest is small, compact, and formed of dried wiry 
grasses, bound together with the hairy tendrils of small plants 
and wool, the inside being lined with very minute fibrous roots ; 
its breadth is about two inches, and depth one inch ; the eggs are 
greeuish-bluc without spot or markings, eight lines long by six 
lines broad.” (Gould, Ilandbk. Bds. Aunt., Yol. i., p. 588.) 
Hab. West Australia. 
ZOSTEROPS FLAVOGULARIS, Masters. 
Masterx, P.L.S., iV.S.F., Vol. i., p. 56. 
“ This very distinct and well marked species was found tolerably 
abundant at Cape York and the adjacent islands, by the members 
of the Chevert Expedition in 1875. A nest of this species now 
before me, taken by Mr. George Masters, at Warrior Island on 
the 27th of June 1875, is a deep cup-shaped structure, composed 
of the dried skeletons of leaves, held together with spiders’ webs 
and neatly lined inside with fine wiry grasses, the whole exterior 
surface being covered with thin, broad strips of perfectly white 
semi-transparent paper-like bark of a Melaleuca, which gives it a 
very beautiful appearance. Exterior diameter three inches and 
one-eighth, depth two inches ; internal diameter one inch and 
three-quarters ; depth one inch and a-half. The nest was attached 
by the rim to the thin branches of a shrub about five feet from 
the ground. The eggs were two in number, but four is the full 
complement for a sitting, of a uniform pale bluish-green both 
specimens giving exactly the same measurements, viz., 0'72 inch 
in length, by 0-5 inch in breadth.” (North, P.L.S., N.S. W., Yol. 
ii., 2nd Series, p. 408.) 
Mr. Sharpe, (Brit. Mus. Cat. Bds. Vol. ix., p. 164) considers 
this species identical with Zosterops a ventre blanc, Homb. et 
Jacq., Voy. Pole Sud. Atlas, pi. 19, fig. 3, (1842). 
Ilah. Cape York, Islands of Torres Straits. 
