It is very bold ami pugnacious, and effectually keeps ofl all other birds from the tree on 

 which it is feeding. 



Its note, which is continuously uttered by the male during spring and summer, is very harsh 

 and disagreeable ; in fact, perhaps the best description is that given by Gould, who compares it to 

 the noise made bv a person when vomiting. 



The breeding season lasts from September to the end of December. A small nest, constructed 

 <»f" sticks, lined with line fibrous roots, is placed in the fork of one of the small branches, often within 

 reach of the hand. Two and sometimes three eggs are laid, of a salmon-colour, marked with blotches 

 of deep chestnut-brown. Their length is thirteen lines and their breadth nine lines. 



The female is smaller than the male, which is about equal in size to the Lunulated Wattle-bird. 



The crown of the head and upper surface, dark-brown ; primaries, chestnut-brown on the 

 inner webs fbr three parts of their length ; outer webs and the tips of the inner, brown; remainder 

 of the wings, greyish-brown, edged with darker colour ; tail-feathers, olive-brown for the greater part 

 "f their length, then grey, and finally tipped with white; feathers of the throat and chest, blackish- 

 brown at the base, and white at the tip ; feathers of the under surface, greyish-white, edged with 

 dark brown ; irides, dark grey ; bill, black ; feet, greyish-brown. 



Habitats : Xew South Wales. Victoria, South Australia, and Tasmania. 



