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] Camera Craft Notes. 259 



having located me behind tlie i)acl<ing case, flew over it several 

 times. 



Occasionally both birds perched on the clothes-line, and seemed 

 to take counsel together. After noon they began to collect food 

 — midges, small moths, and one or two grasshojipers — with which 

 they approached the nest, only to lose heart when within a few 

 feet of it. This continued for half an hour, when the female, 

 always the bolder of the pair, alighted on the edge of the coil of 

 wire netting and fed one of the chicks. Her confidence increased, 

 and she returned with food five or si.x times. I despaired of 

 getting a photograph of the male, but at the eleventh hour he 

 summoned sufficient courage to spend a second, at the nest ; the 

 shutter clicked, and my long vigil was rewarded. 



Last season (1015), on Kulkyne station (Vic), I again attempted 

 to photogra})h White-browed Wood-Swallows. The nest was about 

 five feet from the ground, in a gum-tree stump, and contained two 

 eggs. The birds were even more wary than those of Jerilderie, 

 and I had to be content with a photograph of the nest, though 

 the camera was in position for some hours. 



In January, 1916, a large number of White-browed Wood- 

 Swallows nested in a paddock at Greensborough (Vic.) Most of 

 the nests were low down in s\\eetbriar rose bushes. All the 

 birds, judging by the nests observed, laid about the same time. 

 Photographs of nestlings v>-ere secured, but the parent birds 

 eluded the camera. This paddock, with its little gully covered 

 in briar bushes, dogwood, and eucalypt saplings, was a haunt 

 of many birds besides the Wood-Swallows. — Charles Barrett. 

 Melbourne, 6/2/16. 



Stray Feathers. 



Range of Rosella — Since my article upon Platycercus splendidus, 

 Gould, appeared in The Emu * I had occasion to visit a property 

 owned by my firm, situated about 60 miles due east of Scone 

 and 30 miles inland from the coast. There I found Platycercus 

 splendidus to be the local " Rosella," confirming my theory that 

 the range of the bird extends to the ocean, or thereabouts. — H. 

 L. White. Scone (N.S.W.) 



Bell Miners. — With regard to the statement made by Messrs. 

 Campbell and North, to the effect that the Bell Miner {Manorhina 

 melanophrys) is extremely local in its habit, I noted at our North 

 Coast property that a colony of the birds never moves, apparently, 

 from a certain bend in a brush-covered creek. For the past three 

 years I have visited the spot pretty regularly, and found the Bell 

 Miners always present, while the man in charge states that during 



* Emu, vol. XV., pp. 169-176. 



