292 BIRDS OF THE DISTRICT OF GEELONG 
of thin long dead twigs of the ti-tree, and is lined ^ 
with finer materials such as grass, but no hair, fur, or ] 
feathers. The nest site is a clump of sword-grass, ! 
or, more often, the tops of young ti-tree scrub, at 
a height of about 3 feet from the ground. Only j 
two eggs are laid ; they are of a whitish ground- j 
colour, but so thickly spotted and blotched with [ 
red and purplish as to let very little of the under | 
colour be seen. ' 
I have found eggs as early as October i6th and ' 
as late as December 29th ; early in November seems j 
to be the height of the laying-season at Anglesea ; | 
but the forest-dwelling birds of this as of most other j 
species lay later than those which inhabit the drier | 
areas to eastward. \ 
I 
MASKED WOOD-SWALLOW 
Campbellornis personatus munna 
This species is an occasional summer visitor, there 
being commonly a small percentage of Masked Wood- 
swallows in the flocks of the White-browed birds which ; 
every year visit this district from the north, and j 
sometimes stop to breed. But whereas when the ! 
White-browed Wood-swallow breeds it does so in j 
considerable numbers, the Masked species I have only i 
met with nesting once, when a pair built on an upper ■ 
bough of a spreading cypress tree in the Eastern Park. \ 
The Masked Wood-swallow is easy to pick out from I 
a flock of White-browed birds, for it has the throat j 
