Vol. XIV. 

 1914 



] NicHOLLS, Bird Life in the National Park, N.S.W. 87 



(3.) Harmonious Thrush. — Three different calls of this bird 

 were mimicked. 



(4.) Black Cockatoo {Calyptorhynchits funereus). 



(5.) King Parrot {Aprosmictus scapulatus). 



(6.) Crimson Parrot {Platycercus pennanti). 



(7.) Southern Stone-Curlew {CEdicnemns grallarius). 



(8.) Strepera (two different calls). 



(9.) Great Brown Kingfisher {Dacelo gigas). — Various notes 

 were mimicked at intervals, but never the whole " laugh." 



(10.) Black Swan (the birds calling to one another as they 

 fly overhead in a flock). 



(11.) Scrub-Wren {Sericornis frontalis). 



(12.) A mechanical note of some kind. 



Cocky Bennett 

 (Reproduced by permission of Mrs. Sarah Bennett). 



PHOTO. COPYRIQHT. 



Several notes we could not recognize, one of which, however 

 we thought was that of a Bower-Bird. 



On the return down the river, not more than a mile and a half 

 from the Rest House, we heard another bird calling. As we 

 pulled down the middle of the stream we obtained a perfect 

 view of a male bird standing on a huge boulder It mimicked 



