Vol. XIII 



1914 



j AIacgillivrav, Notes on Some N. Queensland Birds. 147 



Chlamydochen jubata. ]\Ianed Goose {'Wood-Duck^ — Plentiful on 

 Ihc waters of the Gulf, and nesting in Alarch, 1910, at the end of the 

 wet season. 



Dendrocygna arcuata. Whistling-Duck. — Numerous at Sedan and 

 Byromine. On the 30th March, 1910, " a Whistling-Duck with 

 seven small young ones was noted on one of the Byromine lakes." 



Dendrocygna eytoni. Plumed Whistling-Duck. — Great numbers 

 were observed on all tlie lakes and swamps about the Cloncurry 

 Ri\cr, flocks of 200 or 300 being common. They nest out on the 

 plain, in the grass, 3 or 4 miles from water, laying as many as ten 

 or eleven eggs. Also noted at Cape York 



Tadorna rufitergum. White-headed Shieldrake. — Only one seen, 

 and thai on the beach, Charo Bav, Cape York. 



Anas superciliosa. Black Duck. — This species was met with in gi-eat 

 numbers at Byromine and Sedan, on the Cloncurry River, where the birds 

 were nesting freely in the hollows of the trees in and about the lakes. 

 One nest was found in the grass at the foot of a tree. The nests con- 

 tained from eight to ten eggs. At the end of March, when they wei-e 

 found, most of them contained hard-set eggs. This Duck was also 

 common at Cape York, where conditions favoured their habits. 



Nettium gibberifrons. Grey Teal. — This Duck was very numerous 

 on the lakes at Sedan and Byromine, and nesting freely in the 

 hollow trees. The nests contained from five to twelve eggs, the 

 average clutch being seven or eight. Eggs were nearly all hard- 

 set at the end of Alarch, igio. 



Malacorhynchus membranaceus. Pink-eared Duck — Found in 

 gi'cat numbers on the Cloncurry River ^akes and swamps, and were 

 nesting at the end of March. 



Nyroca australis. White-eyed Duck. — Numerous on the waters 

 of the Gulf of Carpentaria. They wei-e nesting in the hollow trees 

 round the lakes at Byromine. They were also met with all the way 

 down the I.eichhardt River. 



Phalacrocorax carbo. Black Cormorant. — At Sedan, on the Clon- 

 curry River, a fiock of this species was noted on a billabong. 



Phalacrocorax sulcirostris. Little Black Cormorant. — At Byromine 

 this species was nesting on the gutta-percha trees in the Big Dalgonally 

 Lake, in company with P. melanoleticiis and Plotus novce-Iiollandice . 

 One tree contained 13 nests, another 27. The clutches varied from 

 three to six eggs, and many nests contained young birds. The species 

 was also seen on the Leichhardt. 



Phalacrocorax melanoleucus. Little Pied Cormorant. — Writing from 

 Byromine, Mr. M'Lennan notes on 29th Alarch. 1910 : — " Rode to a 

 small lake across the river, about 3 miles from the station. Found 

 a Black-and-White Cormorants' rookery of 66 nests, built in four 

 trees out in the lake, with clutches of three, four, and five eggs or 

 young in each nest." On 31st March, 1910 : — " Rode to the top 

 end of the Big Dalgonally Lake. Black-and-White Cormorants were 

 nesting in some gutta-percha trees in the lake. One tree contained 

 four nests, another six, a third seventeen Cormorants' and three 

 Darters' nests, a fourth th^-ee Cormorants' and one Darter's, a fifth 

 thirty-nine nests." 



On the 15th July, 1910, writing from beyond the Leichhardt River, 



