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sandalwood landing, high in a slender gum-tree. Here, also, the 

 birds were plentiful in the flowering gums, and one frequently saw 

 them with a company of other honey-loving birds revelling in the 

 feast provided by the flowering tops of the umbrella-tree. The eggs 

 were invariably two in number, and varied much in colouring, but 

 all had a beautiful glossy surface. 



Mr. M'Lennan noted a few on the Archer. 



Entomyza harterti (Entomyzon cyanotis havterti). — The Northern 

 Blue-faced Honey-eater was common on the Archer River. 



Tropidorhynchus argenticeps {Philemon avgenticeps kempi). — Mr. 

 M'Lennan saw numbers of Silvery-crowned Friar-Birds on the 

 Pascoe River in messmate and blood-wood country. 



Tropidorhynchus corniculatus (Tropidorhynchus cornicitlatus ellioti). 

 — ^The Friar-Bird common on the Archer River is quite distinct from 

 Victorian and New South Wales specimens ; it is a well-marked sub- 

 species. 



Tropidorhynchus buceroides (Neophilemon buceroides buceroides). 



Helmeted Friar-Birds were common in the open forest on the Claudie, 

 where they nested in company with Fig-Birds and Drongos. 



Philemon sordidus (Microphilemon orientalis johnstoni). — Little 

 Friar-Birds were common at Cooktown and also on the Archer River. 

 Several young birds obtained by Mr. Vidgen at Paira had the yellow 

 throat of immaturity. 



Anthus australis (Anthus australis queenslandictis). — Australian 

 Pipits were noted on the Watson River by Mr. M'Lennan. 



Munia castaneothorax (Lonchura castaneothorax castaneothorax). — 

 Chestnut-breasted Finches were first noted after the wet season 

 had started, on the 24th January. As ^Ir. M'Lennan and I came 

 out of a swamp (where we had been wading) into long grass we saw 

 a male carrying grass to a nearly completed nest in the grass. The 

 female was inside acting as builder whilst he brought the material. 

 The nest, composed of dry grass, was somewhat spherical in shape, 

 and supported in the upper part of the strongly-growing grass. The 

 stems of this grass are stiff, and easily able to support a fairly heavy 

 nest at 2 to 3 feet from the ground. The birds were common on the 

 Watson River, where they were breeding in April. 



^gintha minor {Mgintha temporalis minor). — We saw Lesser Red- 

 browed Finches on several occasions on the Claudie, and also saw 

 their old nests. Mr. M'Lennan records them from the Archer River. 



Bathilda ruflcauda {Bathilda riificauda darescens). — Mr. M'Lennan 

 met with the Red-faced Finch on the Watson River. On the 22nd 

 April, 191 5, he flushed one from its nest placed in a stunted gum 

 sapling, 3 feet from the ground ; the nest contained fiv'e eggs. The 

 birds were quite common. 



Poephila leucotis {Neopoephila personata leucotis). — White-eared 

 Grass-Finches wci'e common on the Archer River. 



Poephila gouldise {Poephila gouldiis armitiana). — Gouldian Grass- 

 Finches were common on the Archer River in .both phases of plumage. 



Poephila cincta {Poephila cinctus nigrotectus). — Black-throated Grass- 

 Finches were common on the Archer River, where INIr. JM'Lennan 

 found them nesting in June. On the Watson they were nesting 



