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Platycercus amathusia. Blue-cheeked Parrot. 



Platycercus adscitiis adscitus. 



Seen in pairs on the table-land, where specimens were obtained. 

 This bird most resembles P. pallidiceps, w'ith its pale head and bluish 

 under surface, but the blackish feathers of the mantle have light- 

 bluish edgings instead of yellowish. Broadbent saw a pair which he 

 regarded as P. pallidiceps, while Ramsay regarded the bird, which he 

 met " once only," as P. cyanogenys (i.e., amathusia). 



We heard that P. nigrescens were in the neighbourhood, and were 

 disappointed w^e did not see them, as one of us did on a former trip. 

 These birds are more blood-red in coloration, especially on the rump, 

 and much more blackish on the back, than the true southern P. elegans. 



Podargus phalaenoides. Freckled Frogmouth. 

 Podargus slrigoides covnwalli. 



Seen near Cardwell, and also on the Murray River; their call was 

 frequently heard at night. One sitting bii'd was observed near the 

 track in a large, rough-barked wattle-tree. The male is the larger 

 bird. 



^gotheles novae-hollandiae. Owlet Nightjar. 

 Mgotheles cristata leucogastey. 



Flushed from hollow spouts both at Cardwell and on the jNIurray. 



[Possibly Gould's M. leucogaster should be reinstated. It appears 

 to be a recognizable northern and western sub-species. Type 

 locality. Northern Territory (Port Essington).- — A. J. C.] 



Eurystomus pacificus. Roller. 

 Eiirystomits orieii talis pacificus. 



The Roller, or Dollar-Bird, is a migrant, and appeared from the 

 north in October. (First date observed, 2nd ; first seen by Broad- 

 bent, 9th.) Was breeding on the table-land during our visit there. 



Alcyone pulchra. Purple Kingfisher. 



Alcyone aztirea mixta. 



Seen along the rivers and creeks. Eggs (including a set of six) 

 were taken from burrows in the banks of the Murray River during 

 October. 



As its name indicates, this river Kingfisher is more purplish (or 

 rather violet) in colour than the more southern azurea. 



Alcyone pusilla. Little Kingfisher. 

 Micralcyone pusilla halli. 



Seen about the seashore near Cardwell, also about tea-tree swamps 

 and on the Murray River. 



One balmy September day a pair of these tiny Kingfishers remained 

 perched for a considerable time in a Calophyllum on the strand. 



[Referring to Mathews's Jtalli, ornithologists can hardly expect 

 to find two sub-species of the nature of this bird so close to each 

 other geographically as Cairns and Cape York. Students would be 

 more inclined to accept North's ramsayi lor the Northern Territorv 

 bird.— A. J. C] 



Dacelo minor. Lesser Brown Kingfisher. 

 Dacelo gigas minor. 



Common throughout the Cardwell district and the Kirrama Table- 

 land. Eggs were taken from a hollow drilled in a termites' nest in 

 a large blood-wood (eucalypt) tree near our camp on the table-land. 

 Mr. H. L. White has described the eggs in The Emu, vol. xvi., p. 162. 



