334 BIRDS OF THE DISTRICT OF GEELONG 
the messmate forest in the neighbourhood of the 
Bull's Well; but where one is sure to find them is 
on the treeless tracts covered with heath and innu- 
merable varieties of close-growing plants, characteristic 
of phenomenally poor soil, which exist on the seaward 
side of the timber country all the way along from the 
Bull's Well to Airey's Inlet and beyond. 
Similar country, which in September the red and 
white Epacris and the yellows and reds and browns 
of a hundred leguminous bushes turn into a wild 
garden of amazing beauty, is encountered on the coast 
road from Wensleydale to Airey's Inlet, and that is 
another great resort for the Tawny-crowned Honey- 
eater. I believe I heard this bird also on some grass- 
tree land a mile south of Drysdale on December nth, 
1910, but I have never actually seen it east of the 
Torquay Road. 
Nests I have seen from August to October at 
Bull's Well, Mount Misery (near Anglesea), and on 
the Torquay Road. At the last-mentioned spot 
they were built in low bushes about 3 feet from the 
ground, but at the other two places were right on the 
ground at the foot of a tuft of herbage. The nest is 
thickly built and warmly lined with seed-down ; the 
eggs, always two, are nearly white with a very few 
faint spots of reddish ; their proportionately large 
diameter and rounded smaller end will distinguish 
them. 
