Vol. VIII. 



1905 



J Stray Feathers. 221 



was laid because some children had felled undergrowth right 

 against the nest. She did not build again that season. A 

 Lyre-Bird has also been known to feed and attend to her young 

 after the nest had been moved bodily to a place of safety by 

 some scrub-cutters. Mr. A. W. Freeman, of Nyora, told me he 

 once took home a young nestling, intending to rear it, but 

 changing his mind after keeping it away all night, he took it 

 back to its nest, and caused it to call out, when the mother bird 

 appeared, and he left them together. In this case the young 

 bird was eventually safely reared. Mr. Freeman also informed 

 me that a friend of his found a nest containing two eggs at 

 Binginwarri, Victoria. My supposition is that the second egg 

 was laid by another female. I have on three occasions seen 

 these birds shot at night in mistake for opossums, while perch- 

 ing high up in the eucalyptus trees. A peculiar habit I have 

 noticed in this interesting bird is its propensity for building, and 

 sometimes roosting, in most unlikely places. For example, in 

 the acre of scrub before mentioned they have nested for the last 

 three years, not in the most secluded part — so rough, indeed, 

 that cattle are unable in many places to penetrate it — but, on 

 the contrary, right on the outskirts of the scrub, and within 

 some 10 yards from the road. This year's nest is plainly visible 

 to anyone passing, although the traffic is considerable. Indeed, 

 it was a cream carrier who first drew my attention to the exact 

 whereabouts of the birds this season, and he assured me he 

 rarely passed without seeing them. The trees they roosted on 

 this year are also on the outskirts. From the road the two 

 females could be very distinctly seen on their perches, one of 

 them 150 feet up. — L. C. CoOK. Poowong (Vic.) 



Birds of Inverloch (Vic.) — During the Christmas vaca- 

 tion I had an opportunity of visiting Inverloch, which lies 12 

 miles south of Outtrim, on Anderson's Inlet, and while there 

 found much to interest an ornithologist. Generally speaking 

 the country in that locality is undulating, the highest parts being 

 covered with a somewhat stunted growth of eucalpyts and 

 bracken fern, and the lower portions with heath, tea-tree, sword- 

 grass, &c. In the former birds were numerous, though not 

 representative of many species, those most frequently met with 

 being the Butcher-Bird {^Cracticus destructor), Buff-rumped Tit 

 {Acanthiza reguloides), and Wood-Swallow {Artamus sordidus). 

 In the heath country the dearth of bird-life was very noticeable. 

 Black-faced CuckQO-Shrikes(6'r<3;?^m/?^i- inelanops), Pallid Cuckoos 

 {Cticidus pallidas), and Wood-Swallows were numerous, and 

 very busy amongst the caterpillars which were to be found on 

 the grass and low bushes. In the dense fringe of banksias and 

 tea-trees along the ocean coast, Red and Brush Wattle-Birds 



