RUFOUS SONG-LARK 259 
upward movements with partial descents between, 
and continues singing after it has perched on the 
top of some tree, whence presently it will fly back to 
earth again. 
These birds have from time to time visited the 
Eastern Park in the spring and bred there, coming 
in October and leaving in January. But there have 
been long periods during which they have not come 
to us. From 1885 till about 1892 they were in the 
Park every year ; then they came no more till about 
1898; after which they appeared regularly up till 
and including the spring of 190 1, since when we 
have not seen them. It may be more than a coin- 
cidence that 1902 was the year of the great drought 
in New South Wales and Queensland. 
The nest rests on the ground at the foot of a clump 
of coarse grass ; in the Eastern Park the birds usually 
nested close to the old filled-in pond. The eggs 
are of a purplish-white ground-colour thickly sprinkled 
with red ; their brightness of colouring would mark 
them out at once from the eggs of the Ground-larL 
GROUND OR MOUNTAIN THRUSH 
Oreocincla lunulata dendyi 
It is now over twenty years since I last saw a specimen 
of this shy and forest-loving Thrush in Geelong, 
whither at one time an odd bird or two came in the 
winter, frequenting shrubberies in public and private 
