CHENERY — Notes on Jh'rd.-< of ^'o?ti/(-H>.«/ (,)urr), slant/. l\7 



leaves. A strouji," rim of green plant tendrils or i-ootlet.s is 

 tirst fastened to both sides of the fork, the next tendril or 

 rootlet is attached to both ends allowing it to droit 

 down in the shape of a loop giving the depth of the nest, the 

 same material is now worked in, crossing and recrossing till a 

 strimg framework is consti-ncted ; then a (piantity of wool and 

 cobwebs is worked in to the fonudation making a strong, deep 

 and snug nest. 



A nest observed by Dr. A. M. Morgan at IJobe. S.A., on 

 October iMIth, ItllS, was bnilt of green grasses and lined witli 

 clematis down, dandelion seeds and horsehair. It measured — 

 Height overall. Go cm.; opening. 1)0 cm. x 70 cm.; depth of 

 cavity, 60 cm. It contained two partly incubated eggs. 



Eggs — Two or three in clutch, ground colour cream, scan 

 tily s{)otted witli very dark brown, the s])ots being mostly 

 arrange<l at the larger end as an irregular ring. 



]\Icasurement of I>ggs — Average, -.(>() cm. x l.S:i cm.; 

 largest egg, 2..S5 cm. x 1.1)0 cm. ; smallest egg, L*.4.~ cm. x 

 l.Sr; cm. 



Notes on Birds met with during a Visit to 

 South-West Queensland. 



— T5y A. rHENERY, M.R.r.S., L.H.C.IV— 



No. I. 



Leaving lii-oken Hill on Septemb(M- 14th. the writer, with 

 Dr. W. Macgillivray, and Dr.iH. Dobbyn. both from that town, 

 and the driver of the cai', had as their objective Nappa Merrie 

 cattle and sheej) station on Cooper's Creek. Co])ious i-ains 

 had fallen for the i)ast two months at intervals on the Coojter 

 watershed and we learned from the Messrs. Conrick, our 

 future hosts at Nappa ^Merrie. that the' Hood waters were well 

 down both in the C()0])(m- and the Wilson Rivers. The country 

 north of Ri'oken Hill through which oui- road lay was looking 

 wond(M-full\- well after having ]>assed through one of the worst 

 droughts on record. The same could not be said of the roads, 

 which in su(di hilly country, intersected with numerous ^mall 

 watercourses and larger gum creeks, had suffered severely from 

 the heavy downj»oui-s. At Iduna Park, ;i wayside hotel on 

 Morden Station, 120 miles north of the Hill. Ave were held uj* 

 by car troubles and rain for two days. To j)ut in the time 

 while awaiting the arrival of the Mil])arinka and Tibooburra 

 mail coach which was held \i\) further down the road over 



