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together with spiders' webs, which are beautifully interwoven 

 with the bark and help to attach the nest to the branch. It is 

 lined inside with the fibre or grasses which the neighbourhood 

 supplies. The eggs, two or three in number, are white, blotched 

 with olive-brown, and measure .64 x .5 inch. 



The Rufous Fantail, while it may be seen in open forest 

 country in winter, has its home, and brings up its young, in the 



Fruiii life 



Black and White Fanlail: Rhipidura tricolor. 



H. Burrell. 



most secluded gullies and brushes. It is more terrestrial than the 

 white-shafted, has longer legs and runs freely over the ground 

 and the fallen logs of trees. In the Blue ^Mountains it seems 

 to prefer the crown of a tree-fern as the situation of its nest, 

 which is wine-glass shaped. 



The Black and White Fantail, or Willy Wagtail, resembles 

 the Pied Wagtail of Europe in its contrasted colouring, and in 

 its movements; it runs along the ground, and manipulates its 

 long black tail from side to side, not up and down like the 



