178 BIRDS OF THE DISTRICT OF GEELONG 
and I have no doubt at all that they breed in the 
remoter parts of the scrub, though I have never seen 
a nest. 
Not in every year, but at irregular periods, bands 
of Gang-gangs work eastward in the autumn, and 
come right out of the forest on to the open country 
about Geelong and even into the town. In 1891 
they were at Charlemont, Bream Creek; in 1905, 
1907, and 191 3 they visited the Eastern Park, arriving 
about March and leaving in October, feeding all 
through the winter on the seed-pods of the sugar- 
gums. On the occasion of the last visit there were 
not less than fifty birds. 
Shorter migrations from their breeding-quarters 
are made annually, with the result that all through 
the winter they are present in the drier messmate 
country between Airey's Inlet and Torquay. The 
species is, of course, only one of a great number of 
birds which, breeding in the wet forests, spend their 
winter in drier areas on the surrounding foothills 
and plains. 
The habits of the Gang-gang are such that one 
wonders it has not been killed out long ago. No 
forest-bird is so easy of approach. Half a dozen birds 
will sit quite motionless in different parts of a tree, 
looking at you ; you may go right up to the trunk 
without frightening them away, and when they do 
fly, it is never more than a few yards, to the next 
convenient tree. As they fly, and less often when 
perched, they utter a hard rasping note, not loud, 
