3i6 BIRDS OF THE DISTRICT OF GEELONG 
I have never seen the White-throated Tree-creeper 
on the ground. 
Furthermore, the Brown Tree-creeper is only 
found in fairly open country timbered with a few 
large trees, whereas the White-throated Tree-creeper 
is, as we saw, a bird of the forest. 
The only place in which I have met with the 
Brown Tree-creeper in this district is near Paraparap. 
Some ten years ago I saw about half a dozen of these 
birds on the outskirts of the bush, about two miles 
south from what was then Mr. G. C. Noble's Merrijig 
homestead, and is now known as Grassdale. It was, 
I believe, an isolated colony, for I know of no others 
within fifty miles, and the patch of suitable country 
in which they were was of restricted area. 
No doubt the birds breed in that particular spot ; 
their nesting-habits in general resemble those of the 
White-throated species, the eggs being larger and 
more thickly blotched with red. 
WHITE-EYE OR SILVER-EYE 
Zosterops lateralis westernensis 
Green-bodied, grey-backed, with a little white circlet 
round his eye, this really beautiful little bird is at 
once the delight of the rose-grower and terror of the 
orchardist, as his respective names Blight-bird (in 
New Zealand) and Cherry-picker (in Victoria) denote. 
Very rarely does one see White-eyes in the actual 
