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vicinity, and I liojte lo be able to see this skin when a.iii:ain in 

 Adelaide, i hope to be able to vis^t Ooldea in a few weeks, and 

 will endeavour to procure skins of all these birds, though I 

 make it a practice never to kill a wild bird unless it is absolutely 

 necessary. 



Yours faithfully, 

 Sydney, 29/4/21. A. S. LeS()ri':i'\ 



Notes on Birds met with during a Visit to 

 South-West Queensland. 



—By A. rhenery, M.R.C.S.. L.K.C.P.— 



No. [1. 



The next day's journey was over rough countrj' — as the 

 ordinary track, running in the valley oF the Wilson and skirting 

 the lignum was under water. Shortly after leaving camp, we 

 saw a i)air of IJrolgas. who indulged in a dance. i)e'rhai)s lui- our 

 beneflt. and look but little notice of the cars. Aftei' passing 

 the Nai>pa Merrie boundary, we came out on stony tableland 

 country, but no bird life of interest was noted. On arrival at 

 the Cooper, wliich was now a tine sheet of water at the home- 

 stead, but well within its banks, we left the cars and were fer- 

 ried across in boats, and received a hearty welcome from Mr. 

 lohii Conrick, jun., and his brother. Edwai'd. 



1 hiring a visit to Fort Wells, up the creek some two miles, 

 on the next day. we met with the Brown Flycatcher, which 1 

 had not seen since leaving the Darling. From skins obtained 

 and comitared with Southern forms in IM-. Macgillivi-ay's collec- 

 lion. this one pi'obably belongs to the sub-species paUida. A 

 nest, with two fresii eggs in the usual situation, was taken on 

 the return journey. ^Ve also met \\\i\\ a ilrown Tree-creeper. 

 s]>ecimons of which wei'e obtained, which was probably Cliniac- 

 Icris iniilci, a sub-species lately described by S. A. W'liite. These 

 birds were only met with in small families in box timber in 

 immediate vicinity of the Cooper. Fort Wills is of 

 some historic interest in Australian exploration, as the 

 site of a depot from which Burke. Wills, Gray, and 

 King made their dash for the Gulf and. on their 

 return to this depot, found that the main party, which had 

 I'cmained behiml. had left for the South. The oval, bai-e space 

 on the box free, from which the bark had been reiiu)ved, still 

 bears the chiselled insci-iptiou of an arrow, and the words "DIG 

 — l.'i feet — ■" to indicate a cache of stores in case these members 



