378 Mr. K. Broadbeut on the 



it not been tbat winter weather forces the birds down to tlie 

 lower laudsj while the migrants have at that season left 

 the district. Rain and mist, moreover, were great hindrances 

 to my w^ork *. 



1. AsTUii APPRoxiMANS Vig. ct Hopsf. (Campbell, op. cit. 

 p. 6). 



Found up to an altitude of 3000 feet. 



2. ACCIPITER CIRRHOCEPHALUS (Vicill.) (op. cit. p. 9). 



Occurred on Mount Sophia at 1800 feet. 



3. NiNox STRENUA Gould (op. cit. p. 48). 



A pair of these birds were seen at Palm Camp, alt. 4000 feet. 

 They are true denizens of the mountains and are always found 

 in dark scrubby gullies. I have shot specimens on the Sea- 

 View Range, at the back of Cardwell, and on INIount Echo 

 up tlie Herbert River, as well as on the Luluki River (New 

 Guinea). 



4. Strepera GRAcuLiNA (White) (op. cit. p. 58). 

 Specimens of this bird, which is common all over the Cairns 



and Cardwell districts, were obtained at 4000 feet. In its 

 nest the Channel-billed Cuckoo {Scythrops novce-hollandice) 

 lays its eggs. I have seen about three hundred of these 

 Crow-Shrikes, in January, in company with quite a hundred 

 Channel-billed Cuckoos, in the mountains twenty-five miles 

 from Cardwell, at the head of the Murray River. 



5. Ptilorhis victori.'E Gould (op. cit. p. 69). 



This is the Queensland '' Bird of Paradise," common at 

 3000 feet on Bellenden-Ker, and also found at Ilerberton 

 (4500 feet), Barnard's Isle off Cardwell, and in the big scrub 

 from forty miles out of Tovvnsville to as far as the Blooraficld 

 River, over a range of two hundred miles. It is more 

 plentiful on the western side than on the eastern fall, as there 

 are big open scrubs on that side in which Cassowaries and 

 Orthonyx abound. 



[* The arrangement followed is that of Mr. A. J, Campbell's receut 

 work on the Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds, to whicL references are 

 added. — Edd.J 



