270 BIRDS OF THE DISTRICT OF GEELONG 
and some larger buff-coloured feathers with down 
at base, and one like a Guinea-fowl's. 
The eggs are white, thickly freckled all over with 
very small red spots, sometimes so as to form a ring 
at the larger end. 
The earliest I ever saw eggs was on July 27th, 1891, 
(in lignum bush at Connewarre). The season continues 
till the end of the year. 
It is a bird of skulking habits, not flying till forced 
to, and then low down near the ground. 
CHOCOLATE-BIRD 
Chthonicola sagittata inexyectata 
I GIVE the district schoolboy name for the bird, taken 
from the colour of its eggs ; chiefly because it is the 
name I am used to, but also because it is quite as 
good as any other, and not in the least confusing. 
It may be inapposite, but it is not more so than 
Striated Field-wren. Some of these English names 
for Australian birds will not be definitely settled before 
the species become extinct. 
It is a resident species, having no migratory or 
seasonal movements, but must be classed as one of 
our rarer birds. Two or three pairs inhabit the 
southern slope of Station Peak ; others may be met 
with along the northern edge of the forest between 
Torquay and Jan Juc and farther west. Formerly 
the bush between Drysdale and Ocean Grove was a 
