Vol. III. 

 1904 



LEGGE, Some Rectifications in Tasmanian Ornis. l8l 



flock of Ckcztura gigantca which were " dashing " about the 

 homestead in February, 1896, and, as my list was prepared in a 

 great hurry for the Congress, the addition was overlooked. 



It is satisfactory to find that Mr. Littler has also observed 

 this species in the Launceston district. It doubtless visits 

 Tasmania frequently in company with the " Spine-tail " in 

 continuation of its wanderings down the east coast of Asia 

 to the Australian Continent, but has been overlooked in former 

 years by observers in this island. Micro pus pacificus is also an 

 occasional visitant to New Zealand. 



(?) Climacteris scandens (Temminck). 



On more than one occasion I have seen a " Creeper " in the 

 Tasmanian forests, generally in those little " companies " of 

 birds that are never met with in sunny spots in the heavy timber- 

 land above. Scricornis, Acanthornis, and Acanthiza (ewingi) 

 are the genera that usually collect together. In March, 1902, 

 I met with one example in the myrtle forests at the back 

 of Quamby Bluff, on the track to the Great Lake, and had an 

 opportunity of observing it through my binoculars. 



Recently, having occasion to refer to the genus with B.M. 

 Catalogue, I find that specimens of C. scandens and C. pyrrhonota* 

 are both in the B.M. collection, collected by that indefatigable 

 field naturalist, Ronald Gunn, Esq., and in all probability pro- 

 cured in the northern forests of the island. The bird I last met 

 with, on the occasion named, corresponded in character with 

 C. scandens, but not having procured the specimen, I note it 

 here with a query, notwithstanding, in the face of the evidence 

 afforded by the example in the national collection, both 

 species can with propriety be added to the Tasmanian lists. 



The Nutmeg (Torres Strait) Pigeon. 



The following report by Mr. Frank L. Jardine, Somerset, has 

 been forwarded to the Under-Secretary, Brisbane, and kindly 

 sent on by him to the Aust. O.U. It will be noted that Mr. 

 Jardine deals with a district north of that as to which complaints 

 of reckless destruction arose, and, presuming he speaks of the 

 same variety of Pigeon, evidently knows little of what prevails 

 lower down the coast than his own station, while the months 

 of incubation — " middle of August to March " — do not agree 

 with the observations of more southern writers. The slighting- 

 allusions to those who started the agitation may be allowed to 

 pass unnoticed : — 



Carpophaga lnctuoso\ is the earliest of our many migratory birds, being 



* C. pyrrhonota is now generally accepted to be the young of C. leucopJuza (i.e., 

 scandens), Gould having inadvertently transposed the names lettcopJura and scandens 

 under his figures. It is quite probable that the White-throated Tree-creeper is found 

 in Tasmania, seeing it is a common species near the coast line on the mainland 

 immediately opposite. — Ens. 



f Myristicivora spiiorr/ioa. — 'EDS. 



