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APPENDIX. 
PTILOTIS LEU COT IS, Latham. 
White-eared Honey-eater. 
Gould, Handbk. Eds. Amt., Vol. i., sp. 311, p. 510. 
A nest of this species, in the Australian Museum Collection, 
taken by Dr. Hurst at Cabramatta, New South Wales, on the 
1st of September, 1888, is a deep cup-shaped structure composed 
of strips of bark, bark fibre, and spider’s cocoons matted up 
together, and lined inside at the bottom with cow-hair; it 
measures exteriorly three inches and a half in width by three 
inches and a half in depth. The eggs were two in number, 
fleshy-white, with small reddish-chestnut dots and spots sparingly 
scattered over the larger end of the egg. This nest is similar to 
others I have seen, but it was placed unusually high, being 
attached to the topmost leafy twigs of a Melaleuca, about eighteen 
feet from the ground. 
At Dobroyde I have also observed that the Yellow-breasted 
Robins, Eopsaltria australis, towards the latter end of last seasom 
probably after having been repeatedly robbed, had taken to build 
their nests on the horizontal boughs of the Eucalyptus, and Syn- 
carpia at a height from twenty to thirty feet. This bird usually 
places its nest within a few feet of the ground. 
Ilah. Derby, North-West Australia, Port Darwin and Port 
Essington, Gulf of Carpentaria, Wide Bay District, Richmond 
and Clarence Rivers Districts, New South Wales, Interior, 
Victoria and South Australia, West and South-West Australia. 
{Ramsay.) 
PTILOTIS ELAVA, Gould. 
Yellow Honey-eater. 
Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 31 1 , p. 518. 
Mr. J. A. Boyd has kindly forwarded the nest and eggs of this 
species, which he found breeding on his plantation on the Herbert 
River, Northern Queensland, on January 16th, 1890. The nest 
