240 BIRDS OF THE DISTRICT OF GEELONG 
It has a remarkable liking for flying inside buildings. 
I caught one in March, 1910, in the kitchen of my 
house; and Mr. Riordan tells me that at the end of 
March, 1909, he saw one inside Dalgety's show-floor, 
very tame, and hopping about within 3 feet of him. 
The same habit has been noticed in this bird in 
Melbourne at the same time of year. It may be that 
the little birds enter in pursuit of flies. 
Their summer home is in the densest and most 
remote from human habitation of the Otway gullies, 
so that they have had no cause to fear man or his 
dwellings. I do not remember ever seeing more 
than one of these birds together, and I have never 
seen one except when White-shafted Fantails were 
in the vicinity. 
They do not appear to stay with us all the winter, 
but retire to the forest sooner than most forest- 
breeding species, late though their nesting-time is. 
Mr. Riordan found a nest on January 19th, 1908, in 
the Cumberland Gully, Lorne, containing two slightly 
incubated eggs. It was composed of the red shoots 
of moss, wound round with cobweb. The " tail " 
was made of grass and a soft pulpy substance, and 
the nest was built on a thin branch of a live musk 
tree, amidst particularly dense scrub. Both nest and 
eggs are larger than those of the White-shafted 
Fantail, which otherwise they resemble. 
I noted one of these birds in the blue-gum planta- 
tion. Station Peak, in November, 1910 ; but I 
think it must have been a wandering individual. 
