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abdomen white. The female has the upper surface 
duller than it is in the male, and the throat of a 
rusty-red colour. In and about the town we only see 
it as it passes through, in autumn, as it goes northward 
to spend the winter in the dry interior ; and again 
at the approach of summer, when it is returning to 
the Otway Forest, where it breeds. In Geelong itself 
I have only seen male birds, never a female ; and 
rarely more than one or two males in a year. 
I have notes of a male bird seen at the Gum Flat, 
near Anglesea, on April 21st, 1902; another in Garden 
Street, Geelong, on November 28th of the same year. 
On December 3rd, 191 1, I saw one, also a male, 
between Jan Juc and Anglesea ; and I noticed another 
some years back, in October, in the ti-tree at the 
mouth of Bream Creek. 
The note of the male bird is a harsh, resounding 
trill, a little like one of the notes of the Restless 
Flycatcher, but shriller. When this bird is perched 
on a tree (usually it chooses very high branches), 
it has a habit of violently agitating its tail, not moving 
it any great way to either side, but giving it a kind 
of rapid shivering motion, and calling the while. 
At Airey's Inlet this species once bred regularly, 
but no longer does so. In November, 1894, I found 
two nests, each with the bird sitting, built within a 
hundred yards of each other, in messmate trees on 
the flat near the bridges. Each was at a height of 
about 30 feet, but placed on a slender horizontal 
fork of an inaccessible branch. 
