A Naturalist’s Notes from the Bush evi) 
“rocketer,’ but are obliged to mount gradually some loftier object than the nest from 
which to float on expanded wings to the desired goal. Among the forested ranges at 
the base of Mount Torbrek I saw a nest conspicuously built upon the splintered stooaial 
of a lofty stump, standing erect in the midst of a grove of fern-trees. 
In the wilderness of rock lying away at the back of the Cathedral Mount I have 
detected the nests of these birds in a variety of positions, such as resting upon ledges, 
jambed tightly into fissures, or ensconced among the roots of the out-jutting scrub 
which clambers so profusely over the boulders. : 
Where the country is deeply furrowed by mountain water-courses and dense with 
the vegetable life of a virgin forest I have most frequently found the nest on, or very 
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Photo by Loghorne, Wood's Pcint. 
VICTORIAN LYRE-BIRDS DANCING ON THEIR * HEAP.’ 
near, the ground, in which case it is generally covered with a heavy dome, entrance 
being made through an opening in one side. My experience of the bird and its 
nursery suggests that it is merely an exception to the rule when the nest lacks this 
roofing of twigs and bark, of which material the whole structure is comprised. 
The massy, spacious top or crown of a tall tree-fern is not infrequently utilised 
as a suitable position for nesting purposes, and in consequence of the abundant foliage 
shooting out on all sides, forms at least a safe, secluded retreat. 
THE BUDGERIGAR. 
THe tiny Australian parraquet locally known as the budgerigar, but frequently termed in Europe the 
Australian lovye-bird, shell parraquet, or grass parraquet, is one of the prettiest and most elegantly coloured 
of the smaller members of its group. Scientifically it is known as Melopsittacus undulatus; and it is the 
sole representative of its group. It forms an excellent cage-bird. 
