30 THE BIRDS OF CHARLEVILLE ; 
72. Diceumhirundinaceum, Shaw. The swallow diczeum. 
Not common, and feeding on the berries of loranthus. 
73. Climacteris scandens, Zemn. The brown tree- 
creeper. Common in the neighbourhood of the river. 
74. Climacteris erythrops, G/d. 
This dark-coloured creeper, with its conspicuously mottled 
underparts, is unlike any I have met with in Australia. 
It was tolerably plentiful in the Mulga scrub, and had 
the habit—not very general in Climacteris—of feeding 
on the ground, in which habit it was at Charleville 
associated with Geobasileus chrysorrhous. 
75. Sitella chrysoptera, Gld. The same Sitella which is 
common in the Chinchilla district, and which is provisionally 
referred to this species. 1 only met with a solitary 
example. 
76. Cacomantis pallida, Lath. The unadorned cuckoo. 
These birds were in the Mulga scrub, and were the only 
cuckoos I saw in the district. 
77. Cacatua galerita, Lath. The sulphur-crested cockatoo. 
Common, especially about the sand ridges, where it employs 
itself in plucking the small branchlets of the eucalypts, after 
the manner of flying-foxes, either for food of a vegetable 
description or in quest of insects. , 
78. Eolophus roseicapilla, Vzez/2. The rose-breasted 
cockatoo. Very common about the flats on the sides of the 
river, feeding on grass-roots, or merely pulling them up in 
order to discover other food, and also on the fruit of the 
loranthus. 
79. Ptistis erythropterus, Gm/. The red-winged lory. 
Common, and feeding on berries of loranthus. 
80. Platycercus Barnardi, Vzg. and Horsf. Common, 
and flying between the Mulga country and the river. 
81. Psephotus hzematonotus, G/d. Red-rumped parro- 
quet. A common ground-parrot, and feeding on the ground. 
All the above Psittacidze breed in the district. I did not see a single 
honey-eating parrot. 
82. Phaps chalcoptera, Lath. The bronze-wing. Fre- 
quenting the pine ridges and breeding in the district. 
83. Geophaps scripta, Zemm. The squatter pigeon. 
Scarce in the district owing to the dry season. 
