228 BIRDS OF THE DISTRICT OF GEELONG 
a very low rainfall compared with the Otway) that 
they can find. 
It was the late H. E. Hill — a thorough good sports- 
man and naturalist — who first drew my attention to 
the presence, during the winter months, of quite 
considerable numbers of these Robins in the dense 
ti-tree scrubs at the mouth of Bream Creek. Others 
come right in to the town and frequent the older, 
more bushy gardens : you might easily mistake the 
hen birds, which are plain-coloured little birds, for 
hen Scarlet Robins ; but they are much smaller and 
have a characteristic short, low, rasping twitter. The 
male with his lovely breast of pink (not red, but 
unmistakable pink) cannot be confused with either 
of the other male Robins. 
The Dog Rocks, Batesford, are another favourite 
winter-resort for the Pink Robin. 
It seems a delicate species ; I once picked up, in 
a Geelong garden, a beautiful cock bird dead, with 
no marks of injury. Many, indeed, fall victims to 
cats as they perch for the night on low branches. 
They are exceedingly tame and easy to approach. 
As I find the female does not exactly correspond 
with the description given in Hall's admirable little 
Hand-list, I will append notes made from a hen bird 
which was brought in by a cat at Batesford on May 25 th, 
191 2 : The first three primaries show no trace of 
markings ; the rest have markings of buff at a point 
about half-way along them. These markings consist 
of a strip about ^ inch long on each feather's upper 
