40 X(jRTOX, Bird Xotes from Borcc. TisfS" 



canons forming in many places very fine waterfalls, and really 

 magnificent canyons, some with sheer bare cliff sides, others beau- 

 tifully clothed in brush and pine scrubs. The "Falls Country" 

 is wild and rough and thickly timbered. Forests of casuarina 

 abound and l^yre-Birds, Satin l>ower-I>irds and so on are plen- 

 tiful, but since the boundaries of "Boree" do not extend to this 

 country I have not included anv of the birds found there in my 

 list. 



These are only the birds actually seen by myself on "Boree" 

 during the spring and summer of 1919, and autumn and winter 

 of 1920. 



Coturnix pectoralis. Stubble-Quail. — Veiy common most of the 

 year. One little chap lived in the garden for weeks, and became so 

 tame he would come to be fed every mominf?. 



Ocyphaps lophotes. Crested Pip:eon. — A pair spent a few hours in 

 the jjarden during December. Evidently in mij?i-ation; none seen 

 since. 



Gallinula tenebrosa. Black Moor-Hen. — Occasionally seen about 

 the creek, but not common. 



Podiceps ruficoUis. Black-throated Grebe (Dabchick). — A few al- 

 ways to I)e found on the dams and the creek. 



Lobiby.x novae-hollandise. Spur-winp:ed Plover. — Always plentiful 

 about the creek and flats. A pair bred not twenty feet outside our 

 garden fence on a stony hillside. 



Zonifer tricolor. Black-breasted Plover. — Not so common as the 

 Spur-wing, but fairly plentiful. A pair of these birds bred quite 

 near the house and beside a main road, along which motor cars and 

 other traffic passed frequently all day. 



Charadriu.s melanops. Black-fronted Dottrel (Sand-Piper). — A 

 pair of these birds were almost always to be found at each dam and 

 water-hole. 



Burhinus grallarius. Southern Stone- Plover. — These birds used to 

 be extremely common about here, but since the coming of the fox 

 they have become very rare, and through the whole year I only heard 

 one calling during a night in November (19i;>)- 



Thre.skiornis molucca. Straw-necked Ibis (Dry-weather Bird). — 

 Present in innnense flocks during the late summer and autumn months. 



Platalea flavipe.s. Yellow-billed Spoonbill. — Four seen about the 

 creek in ?>bi-uary. 



Notophoyx novap-hollandiae. White-fronted Heron. — A solitary bird, 

 always lives about the dam near the house. Others ai'e often seen 

 along the creek. 



Nolophoyx pacifica. White-necked Heron. — Usually a very rare 

 bird here, but during this year (I'JID), no doubt owing to the ab- 

 normal conditions created by the prolonged drought, several solitary 

 birds took up positions on the little water-holes and dams. Each 

 bird seemed to keep entirely to his chosen place, and to have no inter- 

 course with the others. One shared — apparently most amicably — the 

 small dam near the house with the old White-fronted Heron. 



Nycticorax caledonicus. Nankeen Night-Heron. — All through the 

 summer one slept by day in a gum-tree near the house; flying to the 

 creek at dusk. 



Anas superciliosa. Black Duck. — Always in small flocks on the 

 creek water-holes, and in October numerous pairs were breeding 

 among the rushes growing all along the muddy margins of the creek. 



