BRUSH WATTLE-BIRD 353 
BRUSH WATTLE-BIRD 
Anthochcera chrysoptera intermedia 
This species bears a general likeness to the Wattle- 
bird, but may be known by its smaller size and the 
absence of any yellow on the breast. It has of late 
years become one of our rarest Honeyeaters ; I know 
but two places where it is still to be found with 
certainty — viz. the You Yangs and Airey's Inlet, and 
at neither is it common. 
It has an even harsher and more disagreeable, 
because shriller, cry than the ordinary Wattle-bird. 
Gould says the blacks named it Goo-gwar-ruck " 
because they thought it sounded like a man in the 
throes of sickness. However, the bird appears to 
rejoice in the effort. 
In the autumn and winter you may see this bird 
at Airey's Inlet feeding in company with the larger 
Wattle-bird and other Honeyeaters at the blossoms 
of the tall ironbarks. As the spring approaches they 
retire to the most secluded and wooded gullies, and 
there build their round, rather shallow, open nests, 
of twigs lined with bark, and very small for the bird's 
size, in ti-tree or similar swamp-scrub at a height 
of 10 or 12 feet from the ground. At the You Yangs 
I found a nest built of similar materials, but placed 
in a banksia tree within easy reach from the ground. 
The eggs number two, and are smaller than the 
Wattle-bird's, being hardly distinguishable, except 
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