24 FoRO, Birds of Yackandandah Creek Valley. [,2t^"}uiy 



Birds of Yackandandah Creek Valley, between 

 Yackandandah and Kiewa, Victoria. 

 By H. W. Ford, F.G.S. 



1908. 



August.— Sire pera graculina and 5. cuneicaudata (Pied and Grey Crow- 

 Shrikes), Grallina picata (Magpie-Lark), Collyriocincla har- 

 monica (Grey Shrike-Thrush), Cractiais destructor (Butcher- 

 Bird), Platycercus elegans (Crimson Parrakeet), Platycercus 

 eximius (Rosella), Clivnacteris scandens (Brown Tree-creeper), 

 Psephotvis hcsmatonotus (Red-backed Parrakeet), Pomato- 

 vhinus superciliosus (White-browed Babbler), Callocephalon 

 galeatum (Gang-Gang Cockatoo), Corvus coronoides (Crow), 

 Podargus strigoides (Frogmouth), Cacatua galerita (White 

 Cockatoo), Pachycephala gutturalis (White-throated Thickhead) , 

 Acanthiza chrysorrhoa (Yellow-rumped Tit), Lobivanellus 

 lohatus (Spur-winged Plover), Malurus cyafieus (Blue Wren), 

 Cotiirnix pectoralis (Stubble-Quail), Notophoyx novce-hollandics 

 (White-fronted Heron), Staganopleura guttata (Spotted-sided 

 Finch), Gymnorhina tihicen and G. leuconota (Black-backed and 

 White-backed Magpies), Phalacrocorax gouldt and P. sulcirostris 

 (White-breasted and Little Black Cormorants), Anas super- 

 ciliosa (Black Duck), Nettion castaneum (Teal), Chenonetta 

 jubata (Wood-Duck), Rhipidura tricolor (Black-and- White 

 Fantail), Dacelo gigas (Brown Kingfisher), Myzantha garrula 

 (Miner), Cerchneis cenchroides (Kestrel), Haliastur sphenurus 

 (Whistling Eagle), Burhinus grallarius (Stone-Plover), Cor- 

 corax melanorhamphus (White-winged Chough). 

 All these birds were to be seen or heard in August. 



September. — Cucuhts pallidiis and Chalcococcyx plagosus (Pallid and 

 Bronze Cuckoos), Graucahis melanops (Black-faced Cuckoo- 

 Shrike), Artamus sordidus (Wood-Swallow), Pardalotus 

 assimilis (Orange-tipped Pardalote), Philemon corniculatus 

 (Friar-Bird). 



October 3 to 5. — Rhipidura albiscapa (White-shafted Fantails) seen. 



October 6. — Eurystomus australis (Dollar-Bird or Roller). — Three of 

 these birds appeared in trees on creek flat — the first seen by 

 writer in Victoria. Last seen in tropical Queensland in 1877. 

 Artamus personatus (Masked Wood-Swallows) observed at 2 

 p.m., going north. 



October 7. — Masked Wood-Swallows, high up, going north, 5 to 6 p.m. 



October 11. — Hypotcenidia philippinensis (Pectoral Rail) seen. 



October 12 to 14. — Two pairs of Lalage tricolor (White-shouldered 

 Caterpillar-eater) seen. They remained and nested, leaving 

 about 31st January, 1909. 



October 14. — Small flock of Calopsittacus novcB-hollandice (Cockatoo- 

 Parrakeets) seen, going north. 



October 16. — Acrocephalus australis (Reed-Warblers) about swamp ; 

 also Circus gouldi (Harrier). 



October 2 to 30. — Petrceca bicolor (Hooded Robins) about. 



October 1 1 . — Circiis gouldi (Harrier) nesting in swamp. Halcyon sanctus 

 (Sacred Kingfisher) seen Numbers of these birds about later. 



October 20. — A flock of Petrochelidon ariel (Fairy Martins) about. 

 Oriolus viridis (Orioles) seen. 



