UNUSUAL NESTING-SITE OF SAULOPROCTA MELALEUCA— SOUTH. 23 



parent and the Fantail had to beat a hasty retreat. One young 

 Fantail left the nest when fourteen days old, and the remaining 

 two on the following day. They lived about the garden, roosting 

 at night in an apricot tree, were very tame, and only to be dis- 

 tinguished from their parents when four weeks old by their duller 

 black plumage, narrow brown tips to the upper wing-coverts, and 

 shorter tails. 



This is the only instance I have known of the Black and 

 White Fantail, or more popularly known " Willy Wagtail," 

 resorting to a house for the purpose of breeding. It is much 

 more peculiar owing to the fact that the house is surrounded 

 with trees — their usual nesting-place — as far as the eye can see 

 on every side. 



