336 BIRDS OF THE DISTRICT OF GEELONG 
plentiful along the banks of the small creeks which 
enter the sea between Airey's Inlet and Lorne, and 
beyond the latter place. Eastward one sees it less 
often, though it is found in the ti-tree scrub on 
the flat at the mouth of Anglesea River, and in the 
more secluded parts of what is left of the bush along 
the Queenscliff Road. 
In appearance it is not unlike the common Greenie 
(Ptilotula pentcillata mellori), but is a much shyer 
bird, and it is seldom that one can get near enough 
to make out, without field-glasses, the alternating 
face-lines, two of black and one of yellow, which 
form the best mark of the species. The call, how- 
ever, is a ringing series of notes audible a couple of 
hundred yards away, and not at all like that of any 
other Honeyeater. It loves to perch on the tops of 
high trees, and flies high in air. 
I have seen a nest with eggs as early as Sep- 
tember 22nd (at the You Yangs, 191 2) and as late as 
February 12th (Lake Connewarre, 1890). The former 
nest was the only one I have ever seen in a golden 
wattle {Acacia fycnantha) ; the latter was in a typical 
position in the outer twigs of a thick, projecting 
bough of a ti-tree. Rarely is the nest placed out of 
arm's reach from the ground. It is a thin cup of 
dried grass, ornamented exteriorly with moss and 
lined with rootlets and sometimes a little hair ; it 
is slung by the rim to a thin horizontal fork of any 
small thick-foliaged tree, rarely a eucalyptus. I have 
seen nests in Acacia hedges, briar bushes, " fireweed," 
