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Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant on a 
I am inclined to agree with Mr. Campbell \cf. Nests & 
Eggs Austr. B. p. 405 (1901)] and to think that P. leila- 
valensis North should probably be regarded as synonymous 
with the present species, but there are no Queensland 
specimens available for comparison with the West Australian 
series. Mr. Mathews keeps them distinct. The figure of 
P. carteri given in the ‘ Emu/ and referred to above, repre¬ 
sents the bird as having the breast bright yellow like the 
sides of the head and throat, but this is not really the case ; 
the chest is greyish-buff streaked with pale yellow, and the 
rest of the under parts are of a bright cream-colour. The 
back, too, should be browner, the rump much less bright, 
and the tail-feathers olive, merely margined on the outer 
web with bright olive-yellow. 
[Carter's Honey-eater was plentiful on the Gascoyne 
River.— G. C. S.] 
Ptilotis plumula Gould. 
Ptilotis plumula Math. p. 97. 
a-f. ? . Laverton, 16th-26th Oct. 
Iris dark brown; bill black, base of the lower mandible 
sometimes dark yellow; legs of a light slate-colour. 
The only example of the Ptilotis keartlandi of North in the 
British Museum is a female from North-west Cape, West 
Australia, procured by Mr. T. Carter. This species may be 
at once distinguished from the nearly allied P. plumula by 
the grey crown and ear-coverts. Other examples in the 
British Museum from Derby, N.W. Australia, collected by 
Mr. R. Hall, have been wrongly referred by Dr. Sclater to 
P. keartlandi [cf. Bull. B. O. C< xii. p. 50 (1902)], and are 
really referable to P. plumula . 
[The Plumed Honey-eater was plentiful around Laverton. 
As in all the species of this genus, the males are noticeably 
larger than the females.— G. C. $.] 
Ptilotis ornata Gould. 
Ptilotis ornaia Math. p. 96. 
a-h. S 2 • Crookerdine Lake, 17th-25th July. 
i-l. J $ . Kurrawang, 8th-12th Sept. 
