STRIATED TIT 
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from the Southern Forest where I have with certainty 
identified it ; from analogy, however, I should say 
it would occur also in the Anakie and Brisbane ranges. 
The white streaks on the crown of the head are 
not, *as a rule, visible when one is watching this bird 
in the branches of a tree, but with a glass one can 
make out irregular stripe-like blotches on the throat 
and chest which will serve as identification marks. 
It could only be confused with the Brown Tit, but 
as the latter is rarely seen high up in a tree, there is 
not much chance of mistaking one for the other. 
Anglesea is a particularly good place to observe this 
bird, and there I have seen seven or eight nests. 
Without exception they were built in gum trees 
(messmates near Anglesea, young ironbarks in the 
Bull's Well), and were always suspended in a cluster 
of long leaves in such a way as to be very hard to 
see from below. In every instance we found the 
nest by watching the birds carrying nest-material to 
it or food to their young. 
The nest is neither so small nor so compact as that 
of the Little Tit, but is very beautiful. Composed 
outwardly of fine strips and shreds of the reddish 
bark of the messmate, it is lined with small feathers, 
fur, and downy substances. 
The eggs are three in number, like the other Acan- 
thizas', but slightly longer and narrower than those 
of the Brown Tit. From the Little Tits they are 
difficult to distinguish. October is the nesting- 
season. 
