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to it to find one at Anglesea. There are, I know, 
three or four pairs at Point Roadknight in the dense 
scrub that lines the sand-hummocks, and at Airey's 
they still haunt the creek about the old bridge ; but 
you must go to the St. George River, at Lorne, before 
you are really in their home. 
In the year 1900 I found a nest containing two 
young ones at Point Addis, and at least one pair still 
breed in the Bull's Well. Nearer Geelong than that 
they do not occur. In my recollection there never 
were any on the Queenscliff side of the town. North- 
wards one meets them in fair numbers at Anakie, 
and also, as I am informed, on the Upper Moorabool 
above Lethbridge. 
The eggs are laid in September, as a rule, but in 
the wetter country about Lorne pairs breed as late 
as the New Year. The eggs are of a green ground- 
colour thickly freckled with red and brown. 
WHITE-SHAFTED FANTAIL 
Rhipidura flabellifera victorice 
Increased greatly in numbers during the past twenty 
years, this sprightly little Flycatcher, with his dark 
grey body and spreading tail shafted with white, is a 
bird one may hope to see on almost any walk near 
the town, especially in the autumn, when there are 
more about than at any other time. The Eastern 
Park has proved a sanctuary to this, as to so many 
other species. Visiting it at first only from February 
