trumpeting note which reminded me \ ery much of Ju-iun'iri'i/ra uti;\r-Iii>U(i!hU.r. I waded for some 

 distance near the margin of the swamp, searching for nests, but succeeded in finding only old ones, 

 from one of which 1 obtained some half egg shells, evidently the result of a recent hatching. 

 The nests were merely masses of aquatic vegetation on the water, resembling those of Podiccps 

 noVir-lioUimdia, whose nests and eggs I found in the same swamp. I also observed on the same 

 sheet of water Nolof'hoyx parijira, Poifliyrlo iiniiiiniiiotns, Cliciii'pis atrata, Iliis iiioluica, and on 

 the margin Caifliihis ipiiiiioUis. It was a remarkably dry season, and at the lime of my visit 

 the surrounding bush was on lire, and the air dense with smoke. While at Copmanhurst, where 

 I had been previously staying, Mr. Savidge pointed out a small swamp of a few acres in extent, 

 behind his house, where he liad taken the nests and eggs of this species; he also informed me 

 he had frequently seen the comb and base of the bill of the bird yellow in the autumn and 

 early winter months, and that the comb and base of the upper mandible changes to red in the 

 spring and sunnner. In the "List of Birds in the Mudgee District," New South Wales, published 

 in the " Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,"'-' Messrs. J. D. Co.\ and A. 





NEST AND EfiCiS OF THE COMH CRESTED PAHRA. 



G. Hamilton record a Comb-crested Parra as shot there by the late Mr. II. Thurston; 

 Mudgee is about one hundred and thirty miles inland and west of Newcastle, on the coast. 



Mr. J. A. Boyd, while resident at Ripple Creek', Herbert Kiver, North-eastern Queensland, 

 wrote me: — "When at Goose Lagoon in tlie early part of October, 1893, I saw a Parra 

 feigning a broken wing. I could not find the nest, but doubtless it was not far away." 



From Copmanhurst, Upper Clarence Kiver, Mr. George Savidge wrote: — "The Comb- 

 crested Parra fPrtrra ^'fj/Z/z/iircdj is a common bird about the Clarence Kiver District, being 

 particularly numerous about the Ulmarra and South Grafton Swamps. The farthest point I 

 have noticed them up the river is Gordon Brook Station, where they liave bred close to the 

 homestead for many years. It is a pleasing sight to see them running and half flying chasing 

 one another over the shallow swamps, uttering their shrill cry. I have found their nest and eggs 

 many times, it is generally placed near the edge of a swamp cr lagoon, and the eggs are 

 almost on a level with the water, some I have seen must be partly under water when the bird 

 * Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, Vol. 1\'., 2nd ser.. p. 421 (1S90). 



