364 BIRDS OF THE DISTRICT OF GEELONG 
Lieutenant-Colonel Garrard, when a boy, found a 
nest of this bird in what was then well-timbered 
country to the west of Mount Duneed. It was a 
large, cup-shaped structure of grasses placed con- 
spicuously at the very end of a projecting eucalyptus 
branch, and contained a pair of eggs, rather like those 
of the Wattle-bird, cream-coloured, with amber, 
brown, and lilac spots and blotches. 
When I first identified this bird, at Fern-tree 
Gully, near Melbourne, about the year 1902, its note 
seemed vaguely familiar, and I believe I must have 
met with it in the early nineties in the neighbourhood 
of Grub Lane on the Queensclifl Road, a locality 
which certainly it has long ceased to inhabit. 
SATIN BOWER-BIRD 
Ptilonorhynchus violaceus violaceus 
It is hardly too much to say that this is the most 
interesting bird to be found in the Geelong district, 
that very few people know of its existence, and that 
it is rapidly approaching the point of complete 
extinction. 
Having its central home in the depths of the Otway 
Forest (if one can still so speak of a forest which is 
yearly disappearing before the settler's axe and 
fire-stick), the Bower-bird, like so many other species, 
makes eastward in the winter towards the belt of 
smaller rainfall which lies towards Geelong. So far 
