It usually rears two or three broods during the course of the season, which lasts from August to January: the nest is very easily found, being placed, in the forest, in any low open bush, and in the gardens among the shrubs and flowers: one of the nests in my collection was taken from a row of peas in the kitchen-garden of the Government House at Sydney. It is usually placed at about eighteen inches or two feet from the ground, and is a somewhat compact structure, composed of small wiry sticks, coarse grasses, and broad and narrow strips of bark; the inside is lined with the soft woolly portion of the blossoms of small ground plants: it usually lays two, but occasionally three eggs, which are of a pale buff, thinly spotted and freckled with deep chestnut-brown, particularly at the larger end, where they not unfrequently assume the form of a zone; their medium length is nine lines and a half, and breadth nearly seven lines. The sexes are alike in colour and may be thus described:— Top of the head and cheeks black, with minute white feathers on the forehead round the base of the upper mandible; a superciliary stripe, a moustache at the base of the upper mandible, and a small tuft of feathers immediately behind the ear-coverts white; feathers on the throat white and bristle-like; upper surface brownish black, becoming browner on the rump; wings brownish black, the outer edges of the quills margined at the base with beautiful wax-yellow, and faintly margined with white towards the extremities; tail brownish black, margined externally at the base with wax-yellow, and all but the two centre feathers with a large oval spot of white on the inner web at the tip; under surface white, broadly striped longitudinally with black, the black predominating on the breast and the white on the abdomen; irides white; bill and feet black. The figures are those of a male and female of the natural size, on a Banksia of Van Diemen’s Land. [Illustration: MELIPHAGA LONGIROSTRIS: _Gould_. _J. Gould and H. C. Richter del et lith._ _Hullmandel & Walton Imp._ ] MELIPHAGA LONGIROSTRIS, _Gould_. Long-billed Honey-eater. _Meliphaga longirostris_, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., Sept. 22, 1846. _Bȁn-dene_, Aborigines of the lowland districts of Western Australia. _Yellow-winged Honey-eater_ of the Colonists.