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Halcyon sordidus (^langrove Kingfisher). — -INIangroves, Maunga 

 Creek, Cardwell. 



Halcyon macleayi (Forest Kingfisher). — August. Common at 

 Cardwell. 



Taxysiptera sylvl\ (White-tailed Kingfisher). — November. 

 Common in all the scrubby mountain gullies and on the small scrubby 

 creeks near the mountains in the Cardwell district. These birds come 

 here about November and leave in February and early in March. 

 They bore a hole into small ant-hills (termites'), and lay four round 

 white eggs. They look beautiful in their native state, flying about 

 and showng their handsome white tails. A very shy bird, and hard 

 to find in the dense scrubs where they live. Very common at Cape 

 York. 



Alcyone azurea (Blue Kingfisher). — August, Cardwell, on the 

 little creeks. 



Alcyone pusilla (Little Kingfisher). — August, Cardwell. Common 

 in little creeks running into Gowrie Creek, in Gowrie Gorge, in Novem- 

 ber. These birds appear to leave the coast for the creeks in the hills 

 in the breeding-time, or about November. In a creek in the moun- 

 tains I saw four together, sitting on logs in the water, and near the 

 beach in the summer — not one to be seen in their usual winter haunts, 

 little mangrove creeks and swamps. 



Artamus sordidus (Wood- Swallow). — ■ September. Breeding at 

 Craig's, Herbert River. 



Artamus minor (Little Wood- Swallow). — Small flocks near Card- 

 well this time of the year (August) seen sitting on the telegraph wires. 



Artamus leucogaster (White-rumped Wood-Swallow). — August, 

 Cardwell, feeding on the tea-tree flats in the early morning — the tea- 

 tree in flower and insects plentiful^in company with Chibia bracteata 

 and Graucalus melanops. 



Pardalotus punctatus (Spotted Pardalote). — October, Seaview 

 Range, and at Cardwell in February, in poor plumage. 



Pardalotus melanocephalus (Black-headed Pardalote). — - Found 

 throughout the year at Cardwell. 



Strepera graculina (Pied Crow-Shrike). — 22nd August, Dal- 

 rymple's Gap mountains. 



Gymnorhin\ tibicen (Black-backed Crow-Shrike). — October, near 

 Craig's, Herbert River. This was the first time I had seen this bird 

 near Cardwell. 



Cracticus quoyi (rufescens) (Black Butcher- Bird). — Cardwell, 

 and in mountain scrubs, in August and January. 



Grallina picata (Magpie-Lark). — August. A few in the winter on 

 the beach at Cardwell. 



Graucalus melanops (Black-faced Cuckoo-Shrike). — Common in 

 August at Cardwell. 



Graucalus mentalis (Little Cuckoo-Shrike). — August. Cardwell 

 is the true habitat of this bird. Here all the year round. 



Graucalus lineatus (Barred Cuckoo-Shrike). — August, Dai- 

 ry mple's Gap scrubs. 



Edoliisoma tenuirostre (Caterpillar-eater). — November. Common 

 about Cardwell. 



