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Godfrey, I was taking a short cut by the hill-track | 
through Mr. Alexander McDonald's (then Mr. Harvey j 
Sichlau's) Norsewood Estate at Anglesea, and when i 
nearing the top I heard the note of a bird which was ■ 
new to me, a short, rasping chirp, and caught sight \ 
of a small brown bird with conspicuous chestnut 
rump, as it flew from one grass tree to another, into i 
which it ran among the leaves at the base. We put | 
it up several times with considerable difficulty, for it 
would not fly until one got right to the bush where 
it was, and then it generally made a hurried exit on ' 
the opposite side. It was rather like a Calamanthus, | 
or even a Sericornis, but the bright reddish rump- j 
patch is not seen on any species of those genera, and, j 
remembering the name " Red-rumped Hylacola," | 
we concluded that this was one — the first and only j 
time I have found a vernacular name of any use for 
identification purposes. ] 
Two years later, on October i6th, 191 2, Mr. Hugh j 
Riordan and I came suddenly upon a little group \ 
of five of the same birds, on the other side of Anglesea 
on a gravelly ridge clad with stunted gums, heath, . 
and desert-loving herbage, which overlooks Point ; 
Roadknight. They were making the same noise as ] 
the bird I had seen at Norsewood, and now for the j 
first time I observed their actions on the ground. ! 
They ran with tail held up at right angles to the | 
body, at great speed, and dodged in and out of the | 
fallen brushwood in most agile fashion. In perching j 
they also held the tail high, after the manner of a 
