54 THE WOMBAT. 
The only other nest of this bird (which is strictly speaking 
an interior species), that I have seen in the Geelong district was 
one built in a sheoak on the plains at the foot of the You Yangs, 
which contained three fresh eggs. ‘That was late in July, 1896, 
and I have only noticed the birds four times since, so that the 
occurrence now recorded is somewhat exceptional. The White-face 
is hardly likely,to be discovered, I think, further to the southward, 
as the nest was only a bare mile from the edge of the costal ranges, _ 
and the bird is a plain-dweller. 
A pleasant ride of fifteen miles brought us home early in the 
afternoon, and so concluded an outing that we are likely to long 
remember as one in every daylight hour of which we learned some- 
thing of fresh interest (to ourselves at least) about the birds of our 
district. Very soon the greater part of this forest will have been 
cut down for fire-wood; and as the trees go, the birds go too. 
Within my easy recollection some species were almost common in 
our district that are never now seen. It is likely that in the 
generation following us there will be ornithologists who will be glad 
to know what species existed in this part of the country in the days 
that preceded them, and it is for such chiefly that I have written 
this account of this excursion, though I trust I have not made it 
too long and uninteresting for the present-day reader. { know the 
birds mentioned in it are common enough now: my excuse for 
writing about them is that they will not always be. 
C.F.B. 
