34 MORSE, Birds of the Moree District. 



1st July 



Acanthiza nana. Little Tit-Wai'blei. — Fairly plentiful in the 

 sandal-wood scrubs. 



Acanthiza chrysorrhoa. Yellow-tailed Tit-Warbler. — Numerous. 



Acanthiza pyrrhopygia. Red-runiped Tit-Warbler. — Rare. This 

 little bird, owinfr to its quiet, retiring nature and modest appearance, 

 could easily be mistaken for several other species, and in this way 

 overlooked, but its nest is quite unique, and usually in an exposed 

 position — a distinct invitation to the Bronze-Cuckoo. 



Acanthiza uropygialis. Chestnut- ta.led Tit-Warbler. — Plentiful; 

 generally to be found in little bands; always nests in a hollow with 

 a tiny entrance. 



Sericornis frontalis. White-browed Sci-ub-Wren. — On the extreme 

 eastern boundary, where there are shaded gullies running from the 

 hills, I have seen little bands of these birds, but farther west they 

 do not care to go. 



Malurus cyaneus. Blue Wren-Warbler. — Not numerous, but fairly 

 well distributed. 



Malurus leuconotus. White-winged Wren-Warbler. — This beautiful 

 little bird is to be found in small companies all over the open plains, 

 more especially where there are roly poley bushes, in which they 

 build their nests. 



Malurus lamberti. Variegated Wren-Warbler. — Fairly plentiful. 



Artamus leucorhynchus. White-breasted Wood-Swallow. — Nume- 

 rous. 



Artamus .superciliosus. — White-browed Wood-Swallow. — Numerous. 



Artamus personatu.s. Masked Wood-Swallow. — Numerous. 



Artamus cinereus. Black-faced Wood-Swallow. — Numerous. 



Artamus minor. Little Wood-Swallow. — Rare. A few pairs of 

 these little birds distribute themselves over the district each spring; 

 they seem to prefer the ring-barked belar country, where they nest 

 in some hollow spout. This district must be about their "furthest 

 south"; 80 miles N.W. they are plentiful. 



Colluricincla harmonica. Harmonious Shrike-Thrush. — Plentiful. 



Grallina cyanoleuca. Magpie Lark. — Plentiful. 



Aphelocephala leucopsis. Whiteface. — Plentiful; one of the earliest 

 and latest breeders. I have found nests early in July and as late as 

 March. 



Neositta chry.soptera. Orange-winged Nuthatch (Tree-runner). — 

 Numerous in the belar forests. 



Climacteris picumna. Brown Tree-Creeper. — Plentiful in the open 

 forest countiy; begins nesting as early as June. 



Climacteris loucoph:ea. White-throated Tree-Creeper. — Thmly dis- 

 tributed in the belar forests. I have never seen them elsewhere. 



Climacteris erythrops. Red-browed Tree-Creeper. — Very rare; an 

 odd pair in the N.E. quarter. In 1920, Mr. Mawhiney found one pair 

 breeding; the nest was fairly low in the cleft of a boonary tree. 



Zosterops lateralis. White-eye. — In the autumn months I have 

 several times seen little bands of these birds about, but they do not 

 seem to remain long, and I have never seen or heard of their nesting 

 in the district. 



Dica>um hiriindinaceum. Mistletoe-Bird. — Not numerous. 



