300 BIRDS OF THE DISTRICT OF GEELONG 
as to ground-colour, with a number of well-defined 
spots of red, brown, and lilac, sometimes in the form 
of a ring about the larger end. 
The months of September and October form the 
breeding-season. 
The Harmonious Thrush is arboreal in its habits ; 
it is not fond of long flights, and is one of the tamest 
of bush birds, allowing one to get right under the 
branch on which it is perched. I have seen it come 
right inside the open door of a dining-room in a bush 
homestead and pick up crumbs from the floor. This 
bird is also fond of picking at the fat on sheepskins 
hung on a fence to dry, though in the bush it is exclu- 
sively insectivorous. 
It is sometimes called Mountain Thrush, but it is 
better to keep that name for the bird to which it was 
originally given. 
MAGPIE-LARK 
Grallina cyanoleuca cyanoleuca 
This is the bird commonly called Mud-lark or Peewee. 
Each name has something in its favour : the bird is 
black and white like the Magpie, it spends a great 
part of its day on the ground like the Lark. Mud 
forms the chief material of its nest, and its cry is as 
near to " pee-wee " as it is to anything else. 
The rounded wings and comparatively laboured 
flight proclaim that the Magpie-lark is no migrant ; 
yet in the autumn it experiences that unexplained 
restlessness and tendency to form into flocks which 
