Vo1 ' I11- ] MlLLIGAN, Notes on a Trip to the Stirling Range. ig 



(53.) ACANTHOCPL^RA LUNULATA (Little Wattle-Bird). — I saw several 

 together in a dense sapling thicket at the head of a mountain gully. 



(54.) PARDALOTUS ORNATUS (Red-tipped Pardalote). — Common in 

 " white gum " belts. 



(55.) PARDALOTUS PUNCTATUS (Spotted Pardalote). — Fairly numerous in 

 the " marlock " clumps, but not seen elsewhere. See earlier references. 



(56.) HlRUNDO NEOXENA (Swallow). — Common at homestead, Tenterden. 



(57.) Petrochelidon nigricans (Tree Martin). — Common in "white 

 gum " belts. 



(58.) Anthus AUSTRALis (Pipit or Ground-Lark). — Common about fields 

 at Tenterden. Mr. Conigrave shot one on the shores of one of the salt 

 lakes. 



(59.) ARTAMUS SORDIDUS (Wood-Swallow). — Secured one specimen. Not 

 very common. 



(60.) Cuculus pallidus (Pallid Cuckoo). — Common about Tenterden. 

 Locally called the " Spring-Bird." 



(61.) Cacomantis flabelliformis (Fan-tailed Cuckoo). — Not numerous. 



(62.) CHALCOCOCCYX PLAGOSUS (Bronze-Cuckoo). — Shot a young one at 

 the foot of a bush. 



(63.) GLOSSOPSITTACUS PORPHYROCEPHALUS (Purple-crowned Lorikeet). — 

 Very numerous in the " yate " gum country near Tenterden. 



(64.) CALYPTORHYNCHUS BAUDINI (White-tailed Cockatoo). — Numerous 

 in the timber country. When approaching Yetermirrup Spring on our 

 homeward journey one was observed to leave a dry hollow limb in a "white 

 gum" tree by the roadside. After the camp was pitched we returned to 

 the tree, and after " tomahawking " in holes in various places in the limbs 

 and trunk, eventually hit the locale of the nest (if it can be so termed) in 

 the latter. It contained one egg. There was not any semblance of con- 

 struction about the nest, the egg just being placed on the decayed matter 

 often found in the trunks of " piped " trees. The distance from the entrance 

 of the hollow to where the egg was deposited was some 12 feet. We observed 

 young birds flying about with the flocks. They could easily be detected 

 by their baby voices. 



(65.) PLATYCERCUS ICTEROTIS (Yellow-cheeked Parrakeet). — Not very 

 numerous. 



(66.) Porphryocephalus SPURIUS (Red-capped Parrakeet.) — Uncom- 

 mon. Saw two birds only. 



(67.) TURNIX VARIA (Painted Quail). — Saw several — some on stony 

 country, and others on alluvial. 



(68.) BURHINUS GRALLARIUS (Stone-Plover). — Very plentiful in the 

 " white gum " country. They came very close to the camps at night. 

 We flushed them in the scrubs skirting the timber country on many 

 occasions in the daytime. 



(69.) ANAS SUPERCILIOSA (Black Duck). — See earlier references. We 

 saw many on the lakes near Tenterden, also many other species of Duck 

 which we could not identify from the long distance. 



