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 1930 



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School of Arts committee (Mr. W. R. Hunter) and the president 

 of the Chamber of Commerce (Mr. Drury) cordially supported the 

 mayoral welcome. 



Each of the three visitors responded on behalf of his respective 

 State. Colonel Home said that Dal by had a " good sport " in 

 their mayor, who had undertaken to motor the visitors to 

 Toowoomba, as though a drive of roo miles were nothing ! He 

 spoke of the Bunya Range as a beautiful place, and said that, 

 although he had been in the Buffalos, Grampians, and Blue 

 Mountains, nowhere had he seen such birds, vegetation, and views 

 of plains. Mr. Carter, in expressing his obligations to the hosts, 

 said the welcome honoured the people of Dalby as it honoured 

 the visitors, because, in honouring scientists and science, they 

 showed a public spirit. Mr. Barker spoke enthusiastically of 

 the birds and scenery of the Bunyas, and trusted that this open- 

 hearted hospitality on the part of the Dalby people would mean 

 that tiie mountains got the advertisement they deserved. 



Conclusion. 

 So ended the naturalists' experience of the beautiful highlands 

 and hospitable people of south-western Queensland. Several 

 contributions to scientific knowledge will be made as a result of 

 the trip, but undoubtedly the most important outcome is the 

 movement for the safeguarding of the natural features of the 

 historic Bunya Mountains. Already (loth November), as a result 

 of representations made on behalf of the R.A.O.U., steps are 

 being taken by the Queensland Department of x\griculture to have 

 the National Park on the range proclaimed a reserve for native 

 birds, with a ranger to care for them ; and, in addition, the 

 Department of Public Lands has called for a Commissioner's 

 report on the advisableness of resuming " parts of freehold 

 portions i and 441, parishes of Tureen and Maida Hill respect- 

 ively, adjacent to Mount Mowbullan."* 



NOTES UPON THE BIRDS OBSERVED ON THE BUNYA 



MOUNTAINS AND STRADBROKE ISLAND. 

 By Capt. S. a. White, C.M.B.O.U., Sometime President R.A.O.U. 

 The writing-up of the birds observed during the Union's official 

 visit to Queensland has fallen to my lot. and the writer would like 

 it understood that he is labouring under a great disadvantage, for 

 many reasons — firstly, because he is not in a position to handle 

 all the specimens collected, and, much more important, to com- 

 pare them with other skins ; secondly, the writer was unable to 

 collect any bird-skins on Stradbroke Island, and, his collecting 

 material having been left at the foot of the Bunya Mountains, 



* Mr. C. H. Walker, our guide, has now been appointed hon. ranger of the liunya 

 Park, and negotiations are proceeding re enlarging the reserve, — Eds. 



