FLAME-BREASTED ROBIN 227 
second week in September. I believe that numbers 
of these Robins work back into the forest from the 
nearest woodland to Geelong which runs continuously 
into the Otway, that is the Jan Juc messmate scrub. 
At the end of the winter you may see scores together 
in the wattles at Torquay, all working westwards. 
The migration takes place probably by a series of 
very short flights, merely from tree to tree, rock to 
rock, till the destination is reached ; not, as with 
some other birds, by one high protracted passage 
through the air. 
PINK-BREASTED ROBIN 
Erythrodryas rodinogaster inexpedata 
There are in Victoria two kinds of Robins with 
pink breasts ; one is this species, and the other is 
called the Rose Robin and inhabits the wet country 
of Gippsland, from Fern Tree Gully eastwards. 
There seems no reason why it should not occur here 
also ; our birds, however, appear all to belong to the 
Pink-breasted species. The Otway Forest, or even 
farther east to near Anglesea (I have seen males in 
full plumage in December at the falls on the Distil 
Creek), is the nesting-area. In the winter the birds, 
like the Flame Robin, move out of the forest to the 
east and north ; unlike the Flame Robins, however, 
they never show themselves on the plains or even in 
lightly timbered country, but take up winter quarters 
in the thickest parts of the dry country (Geelong has 
