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keep smiling'," or to help a niarcli on by liis lusty sins^'in^' of 

 some popular melody such as " The Broken Doll " or 

 " Tennessee." 



I am .L^iad the club ma,q;azine is still carryin.^' on despite 

 the manifold difliculties which must be encumberin.^' editor and 

 printer. I always dc\'our its pai^es when 1 ^et home on leave, 

 and look up the back numljers which ha\'e accumulated in my 

 absence. And now, having;' come to the end of my time, and 

 perhaps yours, too, I wmII conclude and, in Tommy's vernacular 

 say, " Dear "Sir. Editor, this comes hopin.i;' you are quite well. 

 as 1 am about the same — and in the pink." 



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Birds of Queensland. 



The following interesting' notes of the birds and other 

 fauna of Oueensland are from the pen of Mr. A. Weston, of 

 Brisbane. 



There are about 740 different l)irds in Australia, and of 

 those there are over 600 in (Jueensland, including;' a number un- 

 known in the other states. 



In the crocodile and cassowary we have the larj^est ani- 

 mal and bird on this continent, and we are the sole owners of 

 the two finest rifle birds and three bower l)irds. Oueensland 

 alone receives the annual mii.;ratory birds from New (iuinea, the 

 Torres Straits pigeon, the silver-tail kingfisher, and the metallic 

 starling. T have seen these landing at Cape York on their way 

 south in hundreds and thousands. 



Very singular is the distribution of many of our birds. 

 The cassowary comes south to the Herbert River and stops 

 within 50 miles of Cape York. 



The wonga pigeon is not known north of Alackay. and 

 Broadbent, the best of all our bird authorities, told me he had 

 never seen one north of liroadsound. 1^he scrub turkey ranges 

 from the scrubs of Illawarra right to Cape York, a distance of 

 over 2.000 miles. 



The emu is everywhere in Oueensland, and I saw six of 

 them within three miles of Cape ^'ork. h'rank Jardine told me 

 the kangaroo was not seen within 60 miles of the Cape. The 



