CATERPILLAR-EATER 247 
WHITE-SHOULDERED CATERPILLAR- 
EATER 
Lalage tricolor tricolor 
" Like a little Magpie-lark," I have heard the male 
of this species described, and though the black-and- 
white colouring is differently distributed, it will 
perhaps serve better than anything else to identify a 
bird which is certainly among the most conspicuous 
of the smaller birds of the bush. The hen is more 
plainly coloured; she is brown above, buffy white 
below, with brown indistinct speckles on the sides and 
front of the breast. 
This is another infra-Australian migrant, and as 
it is also one of those species which have accepted, 
within recent years, the hospitality of the Eastern 
Park, it is not difficult to observe its movements. 
It would seem to spend the winter in the north of 
New South Wales, and makes its appearance about 
Geelong simultaneously with the arrival of the Rufous 
Thickhead, about a month after the Pallid Cuckoo. 
From 1886 to 1897 I do not remember seeing this 
bird in the Park, as I believe I should have done had 
it come there ; but for the last seventeen years it has 
been an unfailing annual visitor, and there must be now 
a dozen pairs there every spring, making their clear 
ringing calls heard on all sides. When they first 
arrive, the male birds seem charged with restlessness ; 
they are for ever perching on the top of some tree, 
