THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Creek, not far from Lilydale, near Melbourne, and I also met with it at the 
Black Spur and in Sept. 1915 I met with it near Bulli, New South Wales. There 
it was seen only several hundred feet up from sea-level in the tangled semi- 
tropical forest and fern at the foot of the cliffs. Like the preceding species, 
it loves spots far removed from the haunts of men, and yet it is very tame 
and has the same habit of inspecting the intruder as the preceding species, 
and the low warning whistle is as far as I could judge identical.” 
Capt. White {Emu, Vol. XIX., p. 218, 1920) has written in connection with 
the birds observed on the Bunya Mountains, Queensland : “ Erythrodryas rosea 
( Belchera rosea), Rose-breasted Robin. These little gems in bird life were fairly 
plentiful, showing a preference for the shady fern-tree clad slopes of ravines 
near water. I doubt if they like the dense, dark scrubs, favouring more the 
edges of the jungle. The note is a very distinctive one, and, once heard, can be 
easily picked out years afterwards. Mr. A. S. Le Souef describes it as like : 
‘ We, we, widi, wre-etle,’ with a rising inflexion on the last. The colour of 
the male bird’s breast is quite an unusual one amongst birds. His little, 
drooping wings and sweet coloration as he sits on a twig watching for insects, 
which he often catches upon the wing, make him the most dainty little bird 
of the scrub-land.” 
Campbell, in his Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds, has given a specially 
good and complete account of the nesting-habits of this species and also 
provided a coloured plate of the male and female with nest and eggs. 
I recently separated the northern form subspecifically and the two forms 
may be recognised. 
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