346 BIRDS OF THE DISTRICT OF GEELONG 
mile from the township, I came upon a well-grown 
young bird in October, 1912; while on the Scrubby 
Creek some miles nearer Wensleydale the species is 
quite common. 
Its ideal haunt is a wide stretch of green, close- 
growing young ti-tree on either side of the bed of a 
swampy creek, such as commonly springs up a year 
or two after the taller, original growth has perished 
in a bush fire. There are several such places along 
the Scrubby Creek, and also on the Distil Creek, which 
is one of the streams forming Airey's Creek. In the 
drier, more open country which the New-Holland 
Honeyeater affects, the Crescent Honeyeater is rarely 
found in the breeding-season. 
At Airey's Inlet at the end of September, 1902, I 
found several nests of this species. One was set low 
down in bracken fern (Pteris aquilina) in what was 
formerly the Long Swamp, but has since been re- 
claimed by Mr. Sutherland ; the others were in 
low ti-tree bushes. The nest is wider and has a 
broader rim and shallower cup than the New-Holland 
Honeyeater's, and is lined with rootlets and not with 
seed-down ; while between the lining and the outer 
fabric I generally noted one or two broad dead bits 
of eucalyptus leaf. 
The eggs are smaller than those of the New-Holland 
Honeyeater ; in colour they are creamy-buff with a 
few brown spots set in a ring about the larger end. 
Three is the full clutch. I should judge that most 
eggs are laid in the month of August. 
