McGlLI' — Further Noti'f on hale i'roiiiH llirth. -il 



Further fSotes of Nesting of Birds in Lake Frome 

 District of Soutli Australia. ■ 



.). Noil McGilp. 



Followiiiji ni)()u luy notes in the January issue of llie 

 "S.A. Ornitholoyist,'' I have to report that when at Moolawa 

 tana at end of November, 1920, 1 found the masked wood 

 swallow (Artainns persoiiutus) the white eyebrowed wood 

 swallow (Artdinus sirixrciliosKs) and the white-shouldered 

 caterpillar eater nestinjr for the tirst time in this locality to the 

 writer's knowledge. 



Many nests of the masked wood swallow wei'e noted and 

 every nest examined contained three eggs. The white eye- 

 browed wood swallows were building, a completed nest was not 

 found. 



The white-shouldered caterjullar eater {Ldhif/c tricolor] 

 was nesting freely, its shallow saucer shaped nest of grass 

 rootlets and bark matted together with cobwebs and tendrils 

 of jtlants, was placed in a fork of a tree, at all heights from the 

 ground, nests being observed from 4 feet up to about 25 feet 

 iibove the gi'ound. In one large gumtree with widespreading 

 branches, four nests of Lnlage tricolor were examined, each 

 containing three eggs, also one nest with three young of the 

 black and white fantail. 



Bee eaters, which h;i(l arrived in the district Inter than 

 usual were nesting in tunnels in creek banks. Lnrge clutches 

 were found of some species, the kestrel with six eggs and desert 

 chat (Ashhijia lorcnf^iio with four eggs to the set being the 

 largest sets the writer had observed. The good season with 

 prospects of a good food sui>])ly would reasonably account for 

 larger clutches than usual being laid. Many of the common 

 birds were nestincf. 



Fmu- Wrens breeding at Mount Compass, 

 South Austrah'a. 



J. Neil McCilp. 



On the 2Sth December last Messrs. EdAvin Ashby, F. E. 

 Parsons and the writer visited Mount Compass swamps, with 

 a view to learning soniething of the breeding habits of the 

 little Emu Wren and other birds of that locality. 



The Emu Wren's nest was found after a great deal of 

 hunting. It was not [)laced in Ihe clum])s of Cutting Grass 



