visitor to the Park; it is smaller than any other member of the 
genus, and, as the name Red-capped Robin implies, has a large 
frontal patch of the same scarlet as the breast. 
Another still smaller and equally brilliant fairy-like creature, 
the Mistletoe Bird, is numerous in the neighbourhood of the 
Park. It is a close ally of the Pardalotes, but, unlike them, the 
male bird has a satin blue-black upper plumage, scarlet shirt- 
front, and pink undertail coverts. Its call note, once heard, is 
easily remembered. It is quite tame and is not scared by an 
intruder into its domain. It is a restless hunter for insects, 
except when the mistletoes ( Lorantlius ) are in fruit. Then it 
spends more of its time eating the sweet, sticky fruits or carrying 
them to its young in the nest. This is the only Australian bird 
that makes a nest of felted wool-like material, which is like a 
tiny soft cloth bag, or a fairy basket, whose handle passes over 
the branch from w T hich it hangs. 
The Spotted Quail-Thrush is sometimes disturbed in open 
or heathy portions. While it loves to make its way out of a 
danger zone by short runs, if startled it rises with a whirr of 
wings and soon drops to the ground again. Although rarer than 
it used to be, it still nests either in or nearby the Park ; the nest 
is a well-made grass cup nest placed on the ground, often at the 
foot of a tree trunk ; the eggs are two, often with a dark zone 
near the larger end. 
Three Diamond Birds are found in the Park. The Spotted 
Pardalote and Yellow-rumped Pardalote both have black caps 
studded with little circular white dots (thus Diamond Birds), 
and both have yellow shirt fronts, but the former has a chestnut- 
brown and red rump and the latter a yellow and red rump ; the 
latter is in spring almost only to be found near or actually on 
a patch of sand, into which it makes its shallow nesting burrow. 
The Red-tipped Pardalote is to be heard everywhere as it picks 
scale insects off the eucalyptus leaves, both high overhead or on 
saplings near the ground. In it the black crown has streaks 
of white. 
Another group of small insectivorous birds is well repre- 
sented in the Park. Four species of Thornhills are present in 
considerable numbers, the Yellow-tailed Thornhill feeding on the 
ground in the open grassy portions, the Buff-rumped Thornhill 
keeping more to the stringybark forest but also both on the 
ground and in the trees, the Striated Thornhill with much the 
same habit as the last-named, and the Brown Thornhill which 
prefers teatree bordering the creeks. 
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