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Epthianura aurifrons. Orange Chat.—Most interesting visitors 
this year were five or six of these little birds, including two 
beautiful males. They appeared on November 30 th, and stayed 
for about a week, in the vicinity of a public road. This is 
the first record of the bird in this district, and must be almost 
a record for its most eastern range. We are not more than 
(jo miles from the coast, and just within the eastern watershed. 
No doubt, they were driven by the dry conditions out of the in¬ 
terior. Its congener, the Crimson Chat ( E . tricolor ), was also 
noted breeding—its first appearance here since 1914. 
Mcliphaija chrysops. Yellow-faced Honeyeater.—On Novem¬ 
ber 6 th, 1923, when on a short trip to the coast, I discovered a 
• Nest of the Plum-headed Finch 
nest containing one egg of this Honeyeater and one of a Pallid 
Cuckoo. On the following day, to my surprise, thd Cuckoo’s 
egg was alone in the nest. W hat removed the Honeyeater’s egg? 
If a marauder, he would surely have taken both eggs. A 
fascinating theory that occurred at the time was that the Honey¬ 
eater, objecting to the intrusion of the Cuckoo, had built another 
nest, and removed his own egg thereto; but a thorough search 
for a new nest failed to reveal anything. 
Aidemosyne modesta. Plum-head Finch. — I enclose a photo¬ 
graph of a nest containing five eggs in situ in a clump of Aloes 
(Cactus sp.). I regret the bird is not at it. This is our first 
record of the bird in the district. — B. C. J. Bettington, 
R.A.O.U., Terragong, Merriwa (N.S.W). 
