YELLOW-BREASTED ROBIN. 151 



CHAPTER CXXXIX. 



Yellow-breasted Robin. 



(Eopsaltria Australis, Latham.) 



As this beautiful bird is not. st rirtly speatog, a true 

 robin it is known to ornithologists as a Shrike Kobin, 

 but as ail growers know it as the Yellow-breasted Robin, 

 I have adhered to the old name. 



The full-°rown male is slightly smaller than the one 

 ilhist ated ° The female is much the same in colour, but 

 "in size, and, as Gould say., has the — hve 

 instead of yellow. The nest, of which Mr. Campbell has 

 btaTned such an excellent ^f^^^^. 

 Kv him as being cup-shaped and beautiful m orm .con 

 sLcted of fine twigs, but chiefly of bark, with lengthened 

 ni™es of outer bark, sometimes 2 or 3 inches long, stuck 

 ornernendicularly outside by means of spiders' web and 

 {^ornamented, especially about the ™r, witMfem 

 ned inside with rootlets and pieces of dead flat swoid-like 

 Irass or with whole small dead leaves of eucalyptus The 

 SI usually placed low in a fork or on a horizontal branch 

 of a tree in the scrub or a creek or in a forest. 



This is one of the greatest favourites among birds ; its 

 confiding manner, somewhat slow movements, and I cheerful 

 note render its presence welcome at all times. In the dense 

 ""n the Dandenong and other ranges, its delightful 

 gullies nw e darkness sets in, and even in 



thl T^e (5i~) bay binges it is by no means 

 uncommon. . , , 



SkiSS- Wt-Trowe.' best friends, and should be 



