Vol. VIII. 

 1909 



] Jackson, In the Barron River Valley, N.Q. 2yi 



HERBERTON AND ATHERTON. 



1st December. — Arrived at Herberton this afternoon from 

 Evelyn, and at night developed the negatives taken in the 

 scrubs there. 



2nd December. — Was up early, washing and drying my 

 precious negatives. Then, packing up, I left for Atherton, 

 where I arrived in the afternoon, after a dusty trip over the 

 range. 



Arrived at Atherton to-day (2nd December) from Evelyn 

 scrubs, VM Herberton. At i p.m. I drove to my camp at 

 Tinaroo — a long, dusty drive — in order to see Mr. Frizelle and 

 ascertain if he had succeeded during my absence in finding any 

 more nests of Tooth-bills we had located, and was very delighted 

 to learn that he had. I returned to Atherton before dark. 



As my space is becoming limited, I recognize that I 

 shall have to reduce my numerous notes to a statement of 

 mere facts, thus reluctantly leaving out interesting matter 

 not directly affecting our feathered friends the Tooth-billed 

 Bower-Birds. 



3rd and 4th December. — Visited the scrubs close to the 

 township, and found the play-grounds in nearly every case to be 

 in a very neglected condition. Most of the birds are now up in 

 the trees. 



" CHERRA-CHELBO" CAMP, TINAROO SCRUB. 



I arrived here again to-day (5th December) from Atherton, 

 and found that during my absence Mr. Frizelle had shifted 

 camp across the Barron River to a point of land better suited 

 for our purpose, and close to where we found our first nest 

 (No. i) of the Tooth-bill being built on 14th November. The 

 camp now bears the above name, after the aborigines' name for 

 the curious Tooth-bills, now building their nest so close to our 

 camp. During the early part of November we had located a pair 

 of the birds in a belt of scrub, and between two tracks, at a 

 distance of about a quarter of a mile to the south-east of the camp. 

 However, acting on my instructions on the day of my departure 

 from the camp for Evelyn (on 14th November), Mr. Frizelle, 

 with the assistance of our natives, set to work the following 

 morning to thoroughly examine that locality. The scrub was 

 divided into strips and the trees marked ; then the business 

 of tree-climbing started in real earnest, the natives and Mr. 

 Frizelle climbing and examining the trees nearly every day, but 

 it was not until this afternoon (5th December) that a nest was 

 found. In that time hundreds of trees had been climbed and 

 closely examined. The nest (No. 2) was a frail saucer-shaped 

 structure, and contained one young bird covered with brown 

 down and appearing to be about three or four days old. The 

 Tooth-bills became very excited, and actually flew at the native 



