v°'^-_^^g"-] stray Feathers. I57 



I use this opportunity to include in the " Key," area 5, the 

 following species :-^29, 6y, 183, 235, 265, 392,463 — to be marked 

 as resident or visiting birds I do not know. Evidently I quite 

 overlooked including 265, as recorded in Colonel Legge's list. 



The following may be marked as having been observed in 

 areas 2, 3, 4, 6, while further additions will be noted in Mr. 

 North's work, now in the press. Certain of these records were 

 the observations of Mr. S. W. Jackson, communicated to me, 

 the bulk of the remainder having already appeared in The Emu, 

 There still remain other records to be collected. 



Certain of the birds, under varying climatic conditions, change 

 for a time their stations, and in the droughty spring of this year 

 we have much evidence of it. The eruption of species from the 

 dry areas into the coastal areas may well be recorded, but for 

 irregular rather than permanent residence. — Robert Hall. 

 10/10/07. 



Queer Nesting Places. — Three weeks ago, while driving 

 into the outskirts of Stawell, a town of 6,000 inhabitants, a 

 little Black-fronted Dottrel {Aigialitis nigrifrons) was seen to 

 rise from some pebbles and run off. A clutch of three eggs 

 was found placed on the hard stones not 2 feet away from 

 the wheel track, where scores of vehicles passed daily. In fact, 

 the rubble had been put by roadmenders into a rut, but passing 

 drivers, as is often the case, avoided it. Whether the daring 

 little bird will successfully rear a family in such surroundings is 

 hard to say. A much more suitable nesting place could be 

 found along the margin of a small lake in the public gardens 

 not many yards away. The same day, while visiting a farm- 

 house, I was surprised to hear a Brown Tree-creeper {Climactens 

 scandens) scramble up the hessian lining of a room and out 

 through a hole in the outside wall. It had a nest in the bottom 

 corner containing several young ones. — A. G. Campbell. 

 Pomonal, near Stawell, 12/12/07. 



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Scone (N.S.W.) Notes. — On the 9th October I took three 

 slightly incubated eggs of the Butcber-Bird {Cracticus destructor) 

 from a nest in a small yellow box tree, 20 feet from ground ; 



