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It has a note slightly different from the others, and is most 

 numerous in the Mallee country of the east. 



Practically it performs that service in the dry areas that 

 A. fusilla does in the moist parts. During winter it travels 

 long distances, and on more than one occasion I have been 

 surprised to find it south of county Evelyn, Victoria, late in 

 the autumn. 



Nest. — Dome-shaped and roughly formed ; side entrance 

 near top, without a mantle. It is suspended from foliage on 

 various shrubs in the scrub. In many respects it is similar 

 to those of the two previous Tits. 



Eggs. — Three, sometimes four, to a sitting ; white, blotched 

 with reddish and lilac spots, particularly on the bulged 

 portion. Length, 0.65 inch ; breadth, 0.45 inch. 



STRIATED TIT 



(Hanging Tit), 



Acaiitlii/a liiieata, Gld. 



A-kan-thi'zd lin-e-a'la. 

 Akanthis, a linnet ; lineatus, lined. 

 AcANTrazA LiNEATA, Gould, "Birds of Australia," fol., vol, iii., pi. 61. 

 Geographical Distribution. — Areas 3, 4, 6. 



Key to the Species. — Head a little more rufescent brown than the 

 back, and streaked conspicuously with whitish shaft lines ; back 

 olive-greenish ; throat ashy- white ; band on tail strictly subter- 

 minal and not equal to basal half of tail ; tail quite even ; tarsus 

 scutellated. 



The smallest member of the genus is the Striated Tit, peculiar 

 to Tasmania and our continent. Its vernacular name, 

 Hanging Tit, refers to its habit of suspending itself from 



