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is of the usual cup-shaped form built by the members of this genus, 
and is mostly composed of tho hair-like fibre of the Cocoanut palm, 
with a few narrow strips of bark and spider’s webs ; it measures 
exteriorly three inches in diameter by two inches and three 
quarters deep, internally two inches and a half, by two inches deep. 
The nest was suspended by tho rim to the thin leafy twigs of a 
“Cumquat” orange tree, one of the leaves being worked into the 
side, and was within hand’s reach of the ground. Eggs two in 
number for a sitting, ovoid in form, of a pale reddish-white ground 
colour; one specimen being thickly blotched towards the larger end 
with reddish chestnut markings, the remainder of the surface being 
sparingly but evenly marked witli spots and dots of the same 
colour; the other has an obsolete band of confluent purplish-grey 
blotches on the larger end with a few markings of deep reddish- 
chestnut on the exterior portion of the shell, several penumbral 
blotches and minute dots of the same colour appearing towards 
tho smaller end. Length (A) 0'87 x 0 62 inch ; (B) 0'9 x 0'65 
inch. 
Mr. Boyd states, “ All the nests taken by me were mostly com¬ 
posed of Cocoanut fibre. I cannot say what material this bird 
used for building its nest before Cocoanut trees were planted here, 
but it could easily obtain supplies from decaying Palms and wild 
Bananas. Two nests were built in a species of Ficus, and were 
eighteen feet from the ground ; another was built in a Mango tree 
about eight feet from the ground.” 
Mr. Boyd obtained a nest of this species on the 10th December, 
containing one young one and one perfectly fresh egg. 
I lab. Gulf of Carpentaria, Cape York, Rockingham Bay, Port 
Denison. ( Ramsay .) 
MELITITREPTUS MELANOCEPI1ALUS, Gould. 
Black-headed IToney-eater. 
Gould, llandb. lids., Auslr., Yol. i., sp. 352, p. 573. 
Dr. Holden, of Circular Head, Tasmania, writes as follows :— 
“ I have found this Honey-eater’s nest in December. One was 
