Vol. X 



1910 



■J Le Souef, Description of a New Queensland Lorikeet. 205 



lowed by green and tipped with blue ; feathers of the abdomen grey 

 at their base, then crossed by a reddish band, and the end blue : 

 the scarlet feathers of the breast mostly tipped with blue, and 

 some with a narrow band across them, giving them a slightly scaly 

 appearance ; sides under the shoulder of the wing are also similar, 

 but the scarlet feathers on the upper portion of the under surface 

 of the wing have no markings on them : a very few feathers on 

 the upper breast are broadly tipped with yellow ; feet and toes 

 blackish ; flesh pink, not dark red. as in T. novcB-hollandice ; the 

 breast-bone i inch shorter than in that bird. 



Total length, 11 ; wing, 5| : tail, 4I : tarsus, h ; culmen, 

 I inches. 



This interesting bird is one of the results of the visit t') Queens- 

 land of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union for their 

 annual meeting and working camp outing. One of its members, 

 Mr. Clifford Coles, of Sydney, shot the new bird at Gladstone on 

 8th November, and it is with pleasure that I name it after him, 

 who, with his father and brothers, has been well known to Aus- 

 tralian ornithologists for many years. 



This bird probably ranges over the greater portion of Eastern 

 Queensland, and its nearest ally is T. nova-hoUandice. 



Birds of the Blackalls. 



By J. W. Mellor, R.A.O.U., Adelaide. 



After members of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union 

 had investigated bird-life on the Capricorn Islands, off the coast 

 of Queensland, during the tenth session, it was thought a good 

 opportunity, while returning to Brisbane, to study the habits of 

 tropical land-birds by visiting the Blackall Ranges ; and, accord- 

 ingly, several members left the main party on the southward 

 journey from Gladstone, and spent an exceedingly pleasant and 

 profitable fortnight at the northern extremity of these wild 

 ranges, where no less than 75 species of birds were identified by 

 myself, while a number of others were recognized by the settlers 

 as being present at one or other time of the year, but were not 

 seen during the all too brief time at our disposal. 



Cooroy, the more recently opened up country, was our objec- 

 tive, it being on the main railway line between Brisbane and Rock- 

 hampton, about 80 miles north of the northern capital, and situated 

 at the highest point above sea-level that this line attains. The 

 weather was crisp and clear, and a bright moon was shining, when, 

 between 2 and 3 o'clock in the morning of 20th October, the ex- 

 press train, by special request, pulled up at Cooroy station, and 

 we were roused from our snug sleeping berths, which the Queens- 

 land Government had so thoughtfully provided for us, in addition 

 to passes over their northern lines. Our baggage and effects, 

 which were not inconsiderable, were quickly hauled on to the 



