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of its size. It is placed either in a hollow, on top of 
a dead stump, or in the upright fork of a tree near a 
creek, or in a damp gully, and at about 8 or 10 feet 
from the ground. The eggs number usually two, 
and are greenish stone-colour, heavily marked with 
reddish brown ; they are not unlike large eggs of the 
Blackbird. 
Only once have I known this bird to breed on the 
eastern side of the town. I found a nest with two 
new-hatched young near Grub Lane on the Queens- 
cliff Road, on September 3rd, 1892 ; it was in the 
central upright fork of a native honeysuckle, about 
5 feet from the ground. Another nest, with two 
eggs, which I found at Airey's Inlet on July i8th, 
1893, was about 15 feet up in a well-grown ironbark 
sapling. 
WHITE-FRONTED CHAT 
Epthianura albifrons alhifrons 
With grey upper surface and white breast crossed 
by a black band, the Chat or, as it is variously called, 
Tintat, Dotterel, Tang, Tinnie, Ringneck, or Ring- 
dove, is one of the best-known little birds we have, 
and so is likely to continue, for it accommodates 
itself well to a life in the vicinity of human dwellings, 
and appears to have few formidable enemies. 
The local names given above are all founded in 
good sense. '^Tintat," "Tinnie," and "Tang" 
