Crimson Parrot {Plulyccrciis elegans) secured tlierc, when com- 

 pared with others received from different parts of Austraha, were 

 fomid to be a (hffV^ent sliade of colour, the back being a pccuhar 

 brick-red. Tliis bird is plentiful in the Blue Mountains, and I 

 have noticed a similar shade of colour there among a lot in a 

 trapper's possession, but the shade changed as the birds grew 

 older. So far as my observation goes, the bird is over two years 

 old before it dons its full adult livery. The colouring of the back 

 is very gradual. The red and black shades show out first at the 

 base of the neck, and slowly progress downwards until the limit 

 of their si rface is covered. The head and neck, hitherto a com- 

 paratively dull red, now blaze into a beautiful crimson. The red 

 on the back does not brighten till some time longer. The Mac- 

 pherson Range is the refuge of many beautiful scrub-birds that 

 were once numerous along the eastern streams, as the Clarence, 

 Richmond, and Tweed, and the area recently set apart as a 

 sanctuary should be netted to keep back the fox, which is rapidly 

 following the rough country northward. I knew the Richmond 

 in boyhood, when every bend was clothed with thick scrub from 

 the range down to the junction of the two arms, and those scrubs 

 sheltered many beautiful birds that are now strange in the neigh- 

 bourhood. When the \\ild cherries were ripe the trees would be 

 ahve with Satin Bower-Birds.' These wandered from one scrub 

 to another along the river. The Cat-Bird, Regent-Bird, Whip- 

 Bird, Scrub-Turkey, and King Parrot were common, and about 

 the thickly-wooded foothills on each side of the range, at the 

 heads of the Richmond and Logan Rivers, Bell -Miners were very 

 numerous. They, at least, still tinkle sweetly where they 

 gladdened the bush in the years gone by. — E. S. Sorenson, R.A.O.U. 

 Sydney. 



Camera Craft Notes. 



The Tawny Frogmouth {Podargiis styigoides). — Last September 

 I came across a nest of the Tawny Frogmouth placed in a large 

 sugar gum {Eucalyptus corynocalyx), while on an excursion up 

 the George's River, near Sydney. One of the birds was on the 

 nest, and, not having climbing gear with me, I decided to return 

 the following week to get one of the birds, if possible, to photo- 

 graph. On returning a week later I found the bird still sitting. 

 With the assistance of chmbing gear and a net attached to the end 

 of a long stick, I succeeded in capturing the sitting bird, which 

 turned out to be the female. I managed to get it home, though 

 it made several attempts to get free, and all the time made a 

 noise like a worried Crow. The nest, containing two young, I 

 left without a guilty conscience, for I knew that the other bird, 

 which I discovered in a near-by tree, would come to the rescue. 

 When 1 arrived home 1 placed " Tawny " in the fowl-pen and 



