WHITEFACE. 
Mr. Sandland states : “ Absolutely the commonest bird at Bahah, South 
Australia, even more so than the crows.” 
Mr. Edwin Ashby wrote : “ Very numerous a few miles North of Adelaide 
and throughout the lower North of South Australia.” 
Mr. A. G. Campbell noted: “ Homely and fond of the haunts of men 
as Acanthiza chrysorrhoa is, it is outshone in the northern districts of Victoria 
by this species. Its chubby little form and cheerful song are to be noticed 
about every homestead. It nests with unconcern under eaves, in thatches, 
in hollow posts and spouts, and in garden and other bushes. It reals four, 
sometimes five, young at a time. 
Mr. Thos. P. Austin’s note reads: “ In the open forests and ring-barked 
country, this is undoubtedly the commonest bird of the district, Cobbora, 
New South Wales; mostly met with in small flocks of from three to eight, feeding 
upon the ground. It is extremely tame and often takes up its abode about 
dwellings, but I have never seen them in thick scrub. When disturbed they 
take a very short flight, only to settle upon the ground again, or the nearest 
tree and often a fence. They nest in a great variety of situations, much the 
same as a Sparrow ( Passer domesticus). In Victoria I noticed most of them 
placed their nests in the underneath part of a Magpie’s nest, but in tills district 
they mostly build in hollows in dead trees, but about my house they nest 
in creepers growing on my verandah, in hedges, and between rafters and the 
roofs of sheds and out-buildings. The clutch is usually three, often four, 
and they rear two or three broods in a season, using the same nest each time. 
I have examined nests containing eggs from the last week in July till the end 
of October.” 
Whitlock, writing about the birds of the Nullarbor Plains, states: “ The 
Whiteface I saw was Aphelocephala leucopsis, and that not till I got to Naretha. 
It was nesting in a variety of situations, and showed its usual fearlessness 
of man. At Haig it was nesting in thick blue bushes for the most part. 
Four eggs seem to be a full clutch. The nests, though very bulky, are far 
from neat, and have a spout-like entrance. At Naretha some were placed 
in the lowest forks of dead bushes and without the slightest concealment. 
The eggs were often embedded in rabbit fur.” 
Captain White, writing of the Birds of Lake Victoria and Murray 
River, recorded: “Fairly numerous round Lake Victoria. One specimen 
taken at that place, 6/10/17. $ iris white ; bill and feet black ; length 110 mm.; 
spread 180 mm. This bird approaches somewhat A. 1. whitei, and is of a 
much more ruddy coloration when compared with the form found lower down 
the river, and is smaller,” and of the Central Australian A. 1. whitei later wrote, 
“ Numbers of these birds were seen along our route (to the Finke River). They 
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