332 BIRDS OF THE DISTRICT OF GEELONG 
impressa) at Bambra, when they seemed to be travel- 
ling north. In my own experience I have rarely- 
seen this bird except singly or in pairs, never, I think, 
more than four or five together, save when feeding. 
It is nowhere plentiful, but is very widely distri- 
buted, preferring forest land. I believe I have met 
with it in every timbered part of the district ; in 
the south-west it becomes more numerous the nearer 
one gets to Lorne. 
The breeding-months are from September to 
January ; the only nest I have myself found was 
in the latter month, on the banks of Airey's Creek, 
near the Duck Holes, about 5 miles from the town- 
ship. It was built, as is usual with nests of the species, 
in the perpendicular fork of a small ti-tree, and 
contained two young. It is rather curious that a 
bird which spends so much time in eucalyptus and 
the like open trees should resort to the thick ti-tree 
scrub, in which one does not at other times see it 
at all, to build. 
The nest is heavier and rougher built than those 
of most of the small Honeyeaters, and is not pensile 
in the true sense. It is lined with feathers. 
Mr. Mulder records a nest built at Bambra in a 
hole in the side of a gum tree, about 3 feet from the 
ground. 
