SUPPLEMENT—BIRDS OF NORFOLK & LORD HOWE ISLANDS, ETC. 
Nesozosterops temdrostris. Ante, p. 52. 
Nest. Round and cup-shaped. Composed exteriorly of mosses, fibrous roots and grasses ; lined 
with hair. Lightly suspended by the rim from the thin twigs of branches of low trees and 
shrubs not far from the ground. Shallower and not so compactly formed as that of lateralis. 
Eggs. Clutch four or live ; elongated ovals of a uniform pale blue, the texture of the shell being very 
fine and slightly glossy. 22 mm. by 15. 
Breeding-season. November and December. 
From the proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, Vol. 
XXXIV., pt. 4, March 12th, 1910, I gather from Mr. A. F. Basset Hull’s paper 
on “ The Birds of Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands ” :— 
Pterodroma neglecta. Ante, p. 15. The average measurements of five eggs 
are 63 mm. by 45. 
Pachycephala pectoralis contempta. Ante, p. 38. 
Nest. Open, cup-shaped, and composed of the inner sheathing of Kentia palf-fronds and vine 
tendrils ; lined with coarse dried grass, placed on a matted base of skeleton leaves ; placed 
in a shrub, thickly overgrown with lawyer vines, and about eight feet from the ground. 
Dimensions : 6 inches wide by 2.5 deep ; inside, 2.75 wide by 1.25 deep. 
Eggs. Clutch two ; oval in shape, texture of shell fine, surface glossy. White covered with small 
blackish-brown freckles, sparsely distributed over the whole shell, and with large spots or 
blotches of sepia, and suffused greyish or slate blotches forming a distinct zone round the 
upper quarter. 24 mm. by 18. These eggs very closely resemble the pearly white-ground 
type of P. pectoralis. 
Aplonis fuscus. Ante, p. 54. 
Nest. The nest is a slight open structure of small twigs and dry grass placed in the hollow spout 
of a dead limb, or (at Norfolk Island) in the trunk of a dead tree-ferm, within easy reach of the 
ground. The birds resort, year after year, to the same nesting place, and if robbed, will 
rebuild in the same spot. 
Sauropatis sancta. Ante, pp. 27-30. On Norfolk Island this bird breeds 
in holes tunnelled in the clayey or sandy banks, and on Lord Howe Island only 
in the decayed portions or hollow spouts of the huge Banyan Tree. ( Ficus sp.) 
Nesozosterops albogularis. Ante, p. 51. This bird is probably the Cserulean 
Creeper of Latham, Suppl. ii., Gen. Synop. Birds, p. 169, No. 32, 1801. (? Ciliary 
Warbler, id., Gen. Hist. Birds, Vol. VII., p. iii., 1823.) The Certhia ccerulescens 
Latham, Suppl. Ind. Ornith., p. xxxviii., No. 15, 1801 (after May 30th). 
Zosterops ccerulescens Sharpe, Hist. Coll. Brit. Mus., p. 143, 1906 after July; 
founded on Watling drawing No. 110. 
If this is correct we have Nesozosterops ccerulescens (Latham) with Gould’s 
Zosterops albogularis as a synonym. 
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