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certainly too hard for any prospecting with the bill ; at any rate, they 

 managed to keep in good condition, and now the rain has softened 

 the crust for them. These birds have to fly three miles to a lagoon 

 for water, but they always returned to this dry swamp for food. We 

 rarely see Geese here. Sometimes they come to the Jardine River 

 swamps, but the nearest breeding-ground is the Batavia River." 



Nettapus albipennis {Cheniscus coromandelianus albipennis). — We 

 first noted a pair of these birds on the 24th January, after the' com- 

 mencement of the wet season. They were more frequently met with 

 afterwards, mostly in tea-tree swamps. They were pairing off when 

 we left the Claudie. 



On the 2ist April, on the Watson River, Mr. IM'Lennan saw one 

 with a brood of small young. 



Dendrocygna arcuata (Dendrocygna javanica gouldi). — This Tree- 

 Duck was noted by Mr. M'Lennan on the Watson River swamps. 



Dendrocygna eytoni {Leptotarsis eytoni). — Mr. M'Lennan noted these 

 birds as occasional on the Archer River swamps. 



Tadorna rufitergum {Radfah radjah rufitergum). — Mr. M'Lennan 

 noted this Duck on the Pascoe, and soon after coming to the Claudie 

 he flushed a flock of about 50 from a muddy mangrove bank a couple 

 of miles from the mouth of the river. In July, on the Archer River, 

 he found them to be fairly numerous. 



On the 14th April, 1915, on the Watson River, he noted: — "A 

 couple of broods of young Mangrove Ducks were seen along the 

 water's edge at sunset ; numbers in the swamps." Two days later 

 he noted a brood of Mangrove Ducks almost ready to fly. 



Anas superciliosa {A . superciliosa rogersi). — This Duck was on several 

 occasions noted in numbers on a sand-bank at the mouth of the 

 Claudie. Mr. M'Lennan found this Duck to be numerous on the 

 Archer and Watson River swamps. 



Nyroca australis (A^. australis). — Mr. ]\I'Lennan noted a few on the 

 Watson River swamps. 



Plotus novae-hoUandiae {Anhinga novcvhollandice). — On the i8th 

 December one of our blacks shot a specimen of this bird on the 

 Claudie. It was moulting, and useless as a specimen. The black, 

 however, did not discard it. 



Mr. M'Lennan, from the Archer River, under date isi June, 1914, 

 noted: — "Flushed a Darter from its nest in a dead paper-bark over- 

 hanging the water; it contained one egg." i6th June, IQ14. — "A 

 Darter's nest in a paper-bark overhanging the river contained one 

 large young one, which promptly dived into the water as we 

 approached." 15th July, 1914. — "Flushed two Darters from nests 

 in paper-barks over the river ; each nest contained four eggs." 



Phalacrocorax carbo (P. carho novcrhollandics). — From the Archer 

 River Mr. M'Lennan noted, under date ist June, 1914 : — " Flushed 

 a P. carho from its nest in a dead tree near the bank ; no eggs." 



Phalacrocorax sulcirostris {Mesocarbo ater atev). — A few were seen 

 by Mr. M'Lennan on the Archer River. 



Phalacrocorax melanoleucus (Microcarbu melanoleucus). — Noted also 

 on the Archer River. 



(7^0 be concluded.) 



