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CONFESSIONS OF A BEACHCOMBER 



Helmeted Friar Bird 



Flower-Pecker or Mistletoe Bird 



Black-headed Diamond Bird 



Eastern Swallow - 



Swallow 



White-rumped Wood-Swallow 



Shining Starling 



Noisy Pitta 



Philemon buceroides. 

 Dicmum hirundinaceum. 

 Pardalotus melanocephalus. 

 Hirundo javanica. 

 Hirundo neoxena {frontalis). 

 Artamus leucogaster. 

 Calornis metallica. 

 Pitta strepitans. 



Large-tailed Nightjar 

 Roller or DoUar-Bird 

 Bee-eater 

 Blue Kingfisher 

 Little Kingfisher 

 Leach Kingfisher - 

 Sacred Kingfisher 

 Mangrove Kingfisher 

 Bronze Cuckoo 

 Koel 



Channel-bill 

 Coucal 



Red-collared Lorikeet 

 Glossy Cockatoo 



White Cockatoo - 

 Red-winged Lory - 



PICARIAN BIRDS 



Caprimulgus tnacrourus. 

 - Eutystomus australis. 

 Merops ornatus. 

 Alcyone azurea. 

 Alcyone pusilla. 

 Dacelo leachii. 

 Halcyon sanctus. 

 Halcyon sordidus. 

 Chalcococcyx plagosus. 

 Eudynatnis cyanocephala. 

 Scythrops novce hollandice, 

 Centropus phasianus. 



PARROTS 



Trichoglossus rubritorquis. 

 Calyptorhynchus viridis 

 {leachii). 

 • Cacatua galerita. 

 Ptistes erythropierus. 



PIGEONS AND DOVES 



Rose-crowned Fruit Pigeon 

 Purple-crowned Fruit Pigeon 

 Purple-breasted Fruit Pigeon 

 Allied Fruit Pigeon 

 Nutmeg Pigeon 

 White-headed Fruit Pigeon 

 Pheasant-tailed Pigeon - 

 Barred-shouldered Dove 

 Ground Dove 

 Little Dove - 

 Little Green Pigeon 



Ptilopus ewingi. 

 Ptilopus superbus. 

 Megaloprepia magnifica. 

 Megaloprepia assimilis. 



- Myristicivora spilorrhoa. 

 Columba leucomela. 



- Macropygia phasianella. 

 Geopelia humeralis. 

 Geopelia tranquilla, 

 Geopelia cuneata. 

 Chalcophaps chrysochlora. 



