“This species constructs a neat cup-shaped nest, formed of dried grasses. I found two, both of which were built in the most conspicuous situations; one in a fork at the top of a small scrubby bush, unsheltered by even a bough or a leaf; the other was on the dead branch of a fallen tree, in a similar exposed situation, and quite unprotected from wet or heat. It breeds during the months of October and November, and lays two eggs,” which are of a light brownish buff, encircled at the centre with a band of brown, produced by numerous small blotches of that colour, which appear as if beneath the surface of the shell; they are seven lines long by five and a half lines broad. The male has the head, throat, stripe down the centre of the abdomen, all the upper surface, wings and tail sooty black; the remainder of the plumage pure white; irides blackish brown; bill and feet black. The female differs in having the head, all the upper surface, wings and tail brown; throat and all the under surface brownish white, the centre of each feather being the darkest; bill brown; legs brownish black. The Plate represents the two sexes of the natural size. [Illustration: MYZOMELA OBSCURA: _Gould_. _J. Gould and H. C. Richter del et lith._ _Hullmandel & Walton Imp._ ] MYZOMELA OBSCURA, _Gould_. Obscure Honey-eater. _Myzomela obscura_, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., Part X. p. 136. This species is a native of the northern parts of Australia. At Port Essington, where my specimens were procured, it is only to be met with in quiet, secluded and thickly-wooded districts adjacent to small streams of water; its favourite tree appears to be the _Grevillia_, from the blossoms of which it obtains great quantities of honey and insects. The shy and retiring disposition of this species renders the acquisition of specimens very difficult: “at no time during my stay,” remarks Mr. Gilbert, “did I succeed in getting sight of more than a solitary individual, and I believe it to be a rare bird in all parts of the Cobourg Peninsula.” This bird differs so much in colour from all the other species yet discovered, that it is readily distinguished from all of them. The sexes present no external marks of distinction, except that the female is somewhat smaller than her mate. The whole of the plumage is dull brown, with a vinous tinge on the head; under surface paler than the upper; irides bright red; bill dark greenish black; feet dark bluish grey; tarsi tinged with yellow. The figures are of the natural size. [Illustration: ENTOMYZA CYANOTIS: _Swains._ _J. & E. Gould del et lith._ _C. Hullmandel Imp._ ] ENTOMYZA CYANOTIS, _Swains._ Blue-faced Entomyza. _Cracula cyanotis_, Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp., p. xxix.—Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. vii. p. 474. _Blue-cheeked Honey-sucker_, _Meliphaga cyanops_, Lewin, Birds of New Holl., pl. 4.