THE BIRDS OF COOI>ABAH AND BREWA RRINA— NORTH. 159 



Lipoa ocelhifd, Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mas., xxii., j). 463 

 (1893). 



Constable W. C Wriglitson informed me tliat he only once 

 met with this species at Coolabah — better known thi'oughout 

 Sontli-eastern Australia as the Mailee-hen. This was in Julj', 

 1913, while riding slowl}' along about three miles out of Coola- 

 bah, at a place known as " The Swamp," wlien two of these 

 birds quietl}" walked across the track, and were soon lost to 

 view again in the bush on the opposite side of the road. This 

 was the only occasion he met with them at Coolabah, dui'ing 

 his eight years residence there, although they were well known 

 to him, wliere he was formerlj' stationed, at Cobar. All pei'sons 

 I questioned relative to this species, were agreed that it was 

 rapidly decreasing in numbers if it had not entirely disap- 

 peared from some parts of Western New South Wales. Mi-. 

 J. Armsti'ong, manager of Coronga Peak Station, twenty-eight 

 miles north-west of Coolabah, informed me that the introduced 

 foxes were rapidly gettingrid of tlieMallee-Fowls in thatdistrict, 

 and one was now rarely seen, where formerly they were \erj 

 numerous. On one occasioTi he took eight incubated Leipoa'>< 

 eggs from one of tlieir liatching mounds on a distant part of 

 the run, and placed them in a mound constructed by himself 

 inside a small wired in enclosure in the near vicinity of the 

 homestead. Out of this three young ones eventually made 

 their way, two of which died, and the third one made 

 its escape. He also told me that one of tlie station-hands 

 was successful in rearing, from similarly constructed mounds, 

 no less than twenty-eight young ones, but a Fox getting into 

 the enclosiii'e one night, killed all of them. 



(Edicnemus grallarius. 



Southern Stone-Plover. 



Charadn'ns (ifdlJariits, Lath., Ind. Orn., Suppl., ii., p. Ixvi. 

 (1801)." 



Q^tViotewns (jralhnivn, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol., v., pi. 5 (1848); 

 id., Handbk. Bds. Austr., ii. p. 210 (1865) ; North, Nests 

 and Eggs Austr. Bds., 2nd. ed. iv., pt. iii., p. 246 (1913). 



Burhitiiif^ qraUtirias, Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. ]\Ius., xxiv., p. 18 

 (1896). 



Heard calling on several occasions at Coolabah in the early 

 morning, probably from a large cultivated grass plot in a gar- 

 den on the other side of the road running past tlie hotel. No 

 examples seen. 



