ORANGE-WINGED TREE-RUNNER 313 
of a high wind and consequent difficulty of keeping 
a foothold and fixing the camera 30 feet above 
the ground, to take several interesting pictures. 
The nest was admirably calculated to escape observa- 
tion, so completely did it harmonise with its sur- 
roundings. It looked like a mere thickening of the 
fork. The birds had pulled small strips of bark from 
the very branch on which the nest was built, and fitted 
them neatly on to the side of the nest, in the same 
direction as the grain of the branch and made fast 
by sticky cobweb. The nest walls were thin, the 
rim cut clear and sharp. Inside it was lined with 
dark green and white cocoons. Timid as was the 
bird at first, she returned later and sat with uncon- 
cern on the bluish, red-smudged eggs, till at last the 
photographer could actually stroke her back without 
disturbing her. 
The Tree-runner's back is grey-brown, with a 
dark brown stripe down the centre of each feather. 
The male's head is dark brown, almost black, the 
female's lighter. The tail is black, tipped with 
white ; this white tip and the golden-orange bar 
on the wing, from which the bird is named, are most 
conspicuous when the bird is flying. 
WHITE-THROATED TREE-CREEPER 
CUmacteris leucophcea leucophcea 
On an overcast still day in the bush the call of the 
White-throated Tree-creeper carries farthest of the 
