Vol. IV. 

 1904 



1 KiLGOUR, J Trip I0 ihc Ord River (NAY .A.) 



The Night-Heron {Nycticorax caledonicus) is very numerous 

 in the thick jungle that grows in the centre of the swamp. I 

 shot a Jacana (Hydralector gallinaccus) and a Fawn-breasted 

 Kingfisher (JDacelo ccrvind) — a female. In a patch of flowering 

 Grevillea were numbers of Red-collared Lorikeets, Red-throated 

 Honey-eaters, Little Friar-Birds (Philemon sordidus)^ Black- 

 faced Wood-Swallows {Artamiis niclanops), and several other 

 birds. That patch of Grevillea will be long remembered by me, 

 as the next morning I received an urgent telegram of a domestic 

 nature that caused me to catch a boat for Perth two days later. 

 However, I trust that I may yet be enabled to return and com- 

 plete my field work in this most interesting ornithological 

 reoion. 



North Queensland Notes on Some Migratory Birds. 



{March, igo2-Jnly, 1904.) 



By Fred. L. Berney. 



These notes are a continuation of others published in The 

 Emu, vol. ii., p. 210. 



My district consists of a radius of ^o miles, situated just 

 below the township of Richmond, on the Flinders River, and 

 will be about 240 miles from the east coast and 280 from the 

 north. 



As regards migration, the movements were normal up to the 

 spring of 1903, but the season mentioned, together with the 

 autumn of 1904, were very disappointing, most particularly as 

 regards the Limicoline family. These birds pass here in the 

 spring on their way south, only a small proportion remaining 

 through the summer, but we get the return wave of migration, 

 as a rule, in the following autumn. Both specifically and in- 

 dividually the number were short in the spring of 1903 and 

 almost totally absent in the autumn of 1904. 



White-shouldered Caterpillar-Catcher (Lalage tricolor). — Summer 

 residents, during which time they are fairly numerous. The bulk of 

 them leave the neighbourhood in April, returning to us again in October ; 

 some few of them remain throughout the winter, but amongst these a 

 full-plumaged male is most rare. I feel very doubtful about their nesting 

 in this district. 



White-shafted Fantail {Rkipidura albiscapd). — This pretty and 

 energetic little Rhipidura confines its visits to us to the winter months 

 alone. I cannot call it a resident, its numbers are so limited, and its appear- 

 ance unreliable. I saw it in 1899, 1901, 1902, and 1904, my records being- 

 confined from middle of x'\pril to middle of August. Only once have I 

 seen two together. 



Red-capped Robin {Petroeca goodenovi). — My first meeting with the 

 Red-capped Robin was in the winter of 1902. Subsequently I saw it fre- 

 quently, becoming well acquainted with it. They are typical Robins in 

 all their actions. The female in her modest dress is a most charming 



