TAWNY-CROWNED HONEYEATER 333 
TAWNY-CROWNED OR FULVOUS- 
FRONTED HONEYEATER 
Gliciphila melanops ckandleri 
This has always been a favourite bird of mine, from 
the time when I first found it, in 1890, on the Grass- 
tree Plain, about eleven miles out along the Torquay 
Road, where you may see the birds to-day. There 
is another common Honeyeater in that belt of country, 
the New-Holland Honeyeater, with yellow wing- 
marks and striped breast ; but you can always tell 
the Tawny-crowned Honeyeater by its fulvous fore- 
head and the line of dark brown which runs down 
each side of the white throat, nearly meeting on the 
breast. It is fond of perching on the telegraph wires 
on the Torquay Road at the spot referred to, and 
will fly off as one approaches, travelling high and 
straight for a considerable distance before dropping 
to the low scrub, somewhat after the way of the 
Skylark. 
The note I can only describe as being like the 
whistle of a boy who is learning the art and has not 
much idea of how to produce a musical sound. It 
is the most human-like of all bird-notes which I 
know. 
These birds are distributed widely, if nowhere 
plentifully, over the heathy country which is met 
with from the Grass-tree Plain at intervals westward. 
Often enough I have seen them among the trees of 
