36*6 BIRDS OF THE DISTRICT OF GEELONG 
sometimes imitating other birds. This was early in 
October, 1893. 
The instance is the only one I know of a bower 
being built in a tree ; the nest is always in a tree, but 
is a small structure not in the least like the bower. 
It is remarkable that no nest of the Bower-bird has 
ever been found in the Otway Forest, where undoubt- 
edly the birds breed, or did breed, every season. 
The flight of the Bower-bird is easy and slow, and 
it lives almost entirely in trees, feeding on seeds and 
insects. 
CROW OR RAVEN 
Corvus coronoides perplexus 
I AM aware that I should follow the scientific authori- 
ties and call this bird the Raven ; but as I believe 
that this bird is quite as similar to the English Crow 
as it is to the English Raven, and as, out of possibly 
one million people in Victoria who know the bird by 
sight, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand nine 
hundred would call it a Crow, I have decided to bow 
to the weight of popular usage. 
I want to make this clear. There is another, a 
different, sort of Crow in Northern Victoria which, 
to the best of my belief, never comes south of the 
Dividing Range, and if it should occasionally do so, 
has certainly never reached the Geelong district. 
Now, the ways in which, if you should happen to visit 
