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time collecting and studying all animal and plant life, and even 

 minerals, fossils and ethnographical objects were acquired. 

 Animal and insect tracks were studied, and Macgillivray's early 

 training in the Gulf country enabled him to pick these up very 

 quickly, and his bushcraft then learnt was invaluable in later 

 expeditions. 



In 1903 Macgillivray's wife, who had been ill for more than 

 two years, died, and in 1904 he married her younger sister. 



When motors began to replace horses Macgillivray extended 

 his trips, travelling with his son and Maclennan and finding 

 out the bird life to the north-west. 



He commissioned Maclennan to go to Queensland to search 

 the Gulf country for new and little-known birds and their eggs, 

 as he was, and still is, primarily an oologist and a scientific one. 

 After going to the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union 

 meeting at Brisbane with Dr. Dobbyn, of Broken Hill, Mac- 

 gillivray sailed for Cooktown to pick up Maclennan, but missed 

 him, and after collecting for a week, he commissioned a cutter 

 and sailed the Barrier Reef to Raine's Island and then to 

 Somerset, Cape York, where he met Maclennan, and a few days 

 were spent under Maclennan's guidance in the scrubs there. 

 Macgillivray returned to Broken Hill, but Maclennan remained 

 behind ; the former then made his excursions with his son alone. 

 Although these excursions became fewer, owing to stress of 

 work, notes were continually being made. 



Soon Maclennan wrote from Cape York that a new Parrot 

 of large size was said to live in the scrub at Pascoe River, 

 and asked if he should go in search of it. Macgillivray replied 

 in the affirmative, and Maclennan sent him not only the Parrot, 

 which was an Eclectus, but also another which proved to be 

 Geoff royus, a new genus of Honey-eater, and a new genus of 

 Finch, in all four genera new to Australia. Maclennan urged 

 Macgillivray to come and see the country for himself, and 

 this he did, together with Mr. Kershaw from the Melbourne 

 Museum, and his own son. On this trip Raine's Island was 

 thoroughly explored. When he returned to Broken Hill I 

 met the second of those Macgillivrays whose names were 

 so familiar. 



