Q4 Stray Feathers. \ ^^ 



Emu 

 Ocl. 



Honey-eaters in such numbers. Leather-heads or Friar-Birds 

 {Tropidorhynichu!; coriiiailatus) have also remained with us during 

 the whole winter. The Warty-faced Honey-eaters are now 

 breeding", the first nest (with eggs) being observed on the i6th 

 August ; it was built in a heap of rubbish left by a flood in the 

 bed of the Hunter River. Several other nests have since been 

 seen in Casuarina trees growing on the river banks. — H. L. 

 White. Beiltrees, N.S.W., 28/8/09. 



Migration Queries. — Is anything definite known of the 

 movements of the Ground-Parrakeet {Pc::oporHS formosiis) ? 

 When walking through tussocky plains, about 50 miles from 

 here, I used to flush them from almost beneath my feet. They 

 would fly 40 or 50 yards, then drop again into the herbage. 

 This was always about February or March. Never saw them 

 in winter or spring. Where do they winter ? Their flight 

 seems very feeble — quite incapable of a long journey. 



Pipit {Ant/iHS auslrah's).— There seems to be a movement of 

 this species away from the coast in April and back in Sep- 

 tember, although quite a number stay with us also. Do 

 they cross to the mainland, or are they merely nomadic? 

 There appears to be nothing definite known as to the movements 

 of this bird or of Coracina parvirostris (Small-billed Cuckoo- 

 Shrike) among naturalists over here, although Mr. Atkinson 

 believes the Coracina winters on the east coast of this island. — 

 H. Stuart Dove. West Devonport (Tas.), yj^log. 



Red-browed Tree-creeper. — From evidence gathered this 

 year, I think it is safe to conclude that the Red-browed Tree- 

 creeper {Cliviacteris erytJirops) is a resident of south-eastern Vic- 

 toria, and not a casual visitor, as I at first surmised. When I 

 secured a specimen of this species on the 30th January, 1909, at 

 Olinda, I thought it was probably a stray, for, although a sharp 

 look-out was kept, no other birds of the species were noticed in 

 the locality. I spent a week-end at Olinda, with other bird- 

 observers, from the 5th to 7th June, and it was then that several 

 pairs of birds were noticed. On a recent trip to Beaconsfield 

 (about 20 miles south of Olinda), in company with Mr. Y . E. 

 Wilson, two pairs of these birds were seen and others heard call- 

 ing. This was on 6th August. Mr. Wilson saw a pair at 

 Beaconsfield about a month previously, in a different locality to 

 those last observed. On every occasion when C. erythrops was 

 observed it was noticed the timber was principally white and 

 peppermint gums (eucalypts) and bordering a creek. The usual 

 call of this bird is a silvery, bell-like trill of exceeding sweetness. 



