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THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA 
PLATE XV 
BIRDS OF THE BLOSSOMS AND OUTER FOLIAGE 
1. Yellow-breasted Sunbird Cyrtostomus frenatus S. Muller 
—1A. Female 
Cyr'-to-stom-us —Gk, cyrtos (hurtos), curved; Gk, stoma , mouth: fren-a- 
tus —L., frenatus, bridled. 
Distribution. —North-eastern Queensland to as far south as Yeppoon- 
also occurs in the Celebes, New Guinea, Admiralty Islands, and Solomon 
Islands. 
Notes. —Usually in pairs, flitting about the flowering trees and shrubs 
seeking insects and nectar, occasionally darting out to capture an insect on 
the wing; it has the true humming-bird habit of hovering near flowers 
As it flits from flower to flower it utters a note like “Tsee-tsee ” while 
its song is a pretty, tremulous warble. 
Nest.—A long, oval-shaped structure with a tail-piece, the side en¬ 
trance being protected by a hood. Composed of pieces of bark, bark- 
wn dr 'A" raSSeS> rootle 1 ts < and dead leaves, held together with cobwebs; 
lined with fine grasses and plant down. Frequently suspended from a twig 
nenderT n eres h ’ C ° Se ^ the g . round and sometimes fastened to sus- 
especially ““a„das roPe ° r ° 5U ' ,able ma,erial hanEin8: aboul houses ' 
all o^nTJcufariv'af «; P ?‘ e green !f h ' g . re - v ’ S P« M «1 and mottled nearly 
?easnn ’Si k A T the lar S er end > wlth umber markings. Breeding- 
season : September to January or February. 8 
2 ‘ Gre 7' backcd Silver-eye Zoster ops halmaturma A. G. Campbell 
L S haIm°afuWi? k ’ 1° Stcr> belt ; Gk ’ °P S > fac e•’ halmaturma, so called from 
•’ halmatur us = kangaroo == Kangaroo Island. 
Distribution.— New South Wales. Victoria. South Australia and 
Tasmania; also occurs in New Zealand and Chatham Island 
year Habits^imflar !" rtf*” ?° cks ’ accordin S to the season of the 
eye.' 1056 ° f the be «er-kno W n Grey-breasted Silver- 
horsi-,"^ i small, cup-shaped structure, composed of fine °Tasses 
cobwebs and spidcrs^cocnrfH^r W f 11 . n ? a “ ed and fastened together with 
horse-hair Usually nlarpT^’ U1 u C ' vlt l bne grasses and sometimes with 
a« heights up 3 ” S '" a " 
tembf/?o Jalmry orYebmaryi* 1 ' bluis, U r “ n ' Breeding-season : Sep- 
