256 BIRDS OF THE DISTRICT OF GEELONG 
sweet, high song before he drops among the sheltering 
grass at the hedge-foot. Then there are other 
classes of country the bird loves — the " samphire " 
scrub at the Salt Works, and all the way round to 
Point Henry ; and again marshy ground with a heavy 
growth of tussocks, such as the Big Marsh running 
from Connewarre across the Barwon Heads Road 
almost to the sea, or like that which lies along the 
lower reaches of all our " dim-weeded ocean creeks " 
and within the sand-hummocks. On the grass-tree 
plain near Torquay it is abundant, and is found at 
intervals throughout the drier parts of the forest 
beyond. It does not occur in the denser wet forest 
past Airey's Inlet. North and west of Geelong you 
will find it wherever there are areas of tussock-grass. 
Its favourite position, when not on the ground, where 
it spends most of its time feeding on insects, is perched 
on the top of a low bush. 
Nests may be found from July to December ; most 
eggs are, I think, laid in August. A nest found on 
December ist, 1 91 2, in the middle of the Big Marsh, 
Barwon Heads Road, contained three hard-set eggs. 
It was placed on the slightly raised earth in the 
middle of a tussock about 2 feet high ; though 
resting on the ground, it was also built among the 
bases of the grass-stems. It had quite a wide opening 
with a sort of ledge or rim on the outside, the eggs 
being in a pocket below. The nest was very slightly 
domed, the opening taking up nearly all one side. 
As to material, its composition was fine. Exteriorly 
