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Show 594 MR. E. P. RAMSAY ON [Nov. 16, which have sprung from the fruits brought by these birds for their young. The food of this species is chiefly, if not exclusively, fruit of various kinds, including the seeds of several species of palms, particularly those of Ptychosperma alexandree and Kentia wendtlandtiana ; but although four species of Calamus with edible subacid fruits abound, I never found that these birds fed upon them. The eggs are from three to four in number, variable in form, some roundish, others elongate, about the size of those of Sturnus vulyaris, of a greenish white, with bright reddish brown spots and dots, more numerous at the larger end. 121. POMATOSTOMUS SUPERCILIOSUS. 122. POMATOSTOMUS TEMPORALIS. I only met with these birds on tbe western side of the coast-range, in open forest and thinly timbered country. 123. GLYCIPHILA FASCIATA. This species is plentifully distributed over the coast-country from Port Denison to Cooktown. In habits and actions they resemble Ptilotis flava and others. 124. GLYCIPHILA SUBFASCIATA, Ramsav, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 385. This species, although possessing nothing in its sombre plumage to recommend it, is certainly very interesting ou account of its peculiarly shaped nest, being the only one of the Australian Melipha-ginse that I have met with which constructs a dome-shaped nest. It is a neat structure, composed of strips of bark, spiders' webs, and grass, and lined with fine grasses &c. The opening at the side is rather large ; but the nest itself is rather deep, being about 4 inches long and 2\ to 3 inches wide. The eggs I did not obtain ; but one taken from the oviduct of a bird is 0*75 inch in length and 0*5 in breadth, pure white, with a few dots of black sprinkled over the larger end. The nests were invariably placed among the drooping branches of a species of Acacia always overhanging some creek or running water. All the nests I found were so situated ; and my young friend Master I. Sheridan of Cardwell, who has paid considerable attention to objects of natural history, assures me that he has never found them otherwise ; and the usual number of eggs for a sitting are two, and frequently without any black dots on the surface. Their note is a sharp, shrill, monotonous cry, oft repeated at intervals ; iris reddish brown. 125. STIGMATOPS SUBOCULARIS. This species seems plentiful, inhabiting the mangroves and margins of the scrubs on the water's edge. They betake themselves to almost any of the forest trees when they are in bloom, attracted by |