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back of it. A most striking feature is the bright red 
space just above the eye. 
We seldom see it in the town of Geelong, though 
I have at times noted small companies of four or 
five flying over the Eastern Park ; at such times one 
identifies them by their plaintive flying-call, from 
which as boys we called the birds " tweeas." 
At the Dog Rocks it is plentiful when the gums are 
flowering. Another place where I found it exceed- 
ingly numerous was between Torquay and Jan Juc, 
on the back (northern) road, in August, 1912. It 
is never found in pairs or solitary at such seasons, 
but always feeding in flocks of from half a dozen to 
twenty, not necessarily, however, keeping to the 
same tree. 
Some twenty-five years ago these birds bred regu- 
larly in the bush at Grub Lane (Queenscliff Road), 
where boys called them Blackcaps." Some may 
still nest there, but the nearest spot at which I have 
myself noted the nest is Anglesea River, where in 
October, 191 2, I watched from the hotel veranda a 
pair of birds building in a tree about thirty yards 
away. Airey's Inlet is a regular haunt of this species, 
the breeding-season there being rather later than 
farther east. Nests were not usually noted before 
the beginning of December. 
I cannot do better than quote in full a note given 
me by Mr. Noel Dyson, which describes what, speaking 
from my own experience, is a typical nest and eggs. 
He obtained them on January ist, 191 3, on a thickly 
