222 BIRDS OF THE DISTRICT OF GEELONG 
double call repeated, it may be, a dozen times or more, 
not unmusical : this call has given rise to the name 
Peter-peter. In this district it is sometimes called 
Spink or Sphinx. 
I have noted this bird in all parts of the district 
where the conditions are suitable ; it is particularly 
plentiful on the edge of the forest about Jan Juc. 
The Dog Rocks are now the nearest point to the town 
at which one would be likely to find it, though I 
remember a nest in the Eastern Park in the late 
eighties. 
The nest is a marvel of neatness and beauty. 
Measuring but a couple of inches in diameter, it is a 
tiny depressed circle of fine grasses sunk in the hori- 
zontal fork of a bough — usually of a gum tree ; but I 
have seen them built in honeysuckles and dead wattles, 
and once even in a fig tree in a deserted bush garden. 
It is edged and ornamented with little strips of 
bark taken from the bough. The height at which 
it is placed may be anything from 5 to 20 feet 
from the ground. The eggs are never more than 
two, of a green ground-colour, beautifully marked 
with red, purple, and brown, thickest about the larger 
end so as to form a ring. 
In nearly every case, if the birds have a nest with 
eggs and are watched, one of them will eventually 
fly directly to it — a habit which is rarely noted in 
other birds. The nesting-season is at its height 
in November. I have found eggs as early as Sep- 
tember 19th. 
