328 BIRDS OF THE DISTRICT OF GEELONG 
timbered flat bordering on Airey's Creek, the trees 
being chiefly young gums and ironbarks : 
" Nest, — ^Pensile, suspended in the drooping leaves 
of an ironbark tree about 30 feet from the ground ; 
cup-shaped, diameter 2 inches, depth 2^ inches. 
Material, fine strips and shreds of bark interwoven 
and held in place with cobweb and spiders' cocoons. 
It was the same inside as out, except that there were a 
few of the birds' own feathers as lining, but no cobwebs. 
" — ^Three, pointed, very pale flesh-colour, 
almost white, spotted with reddish-brown and purplish- 
brown markings, which form a zone round the larger 
end. Measurements : 76 inch by '59 inch." 
Mr. Dyson notes that the call when the birds are 
busy in the tall gums is something like a grating 
" chep-chep," and differs from the flying-note. 
He also informs me that the bird sat very close on its 
nest and allowed him to lift her off the eggs. 
BROWN-HEADED HONEYEATER 
Melithreptus atricapillus suhmagnirostris 
Gould says of this bird, At a first glance almost 
any ornithologist would imagine these birds to be the 
young of the Lunulated Honeyeater," and although 
he spoke of a comparison of skins, the same thing 
might well be said of the living bird in the wild state. 
For nearly ten years after I first saw these birds at 
Grub Lane I firmly believed them to be young 
