MIGRATION or BIRDS AT THE CAPE YORK PENINSULA. 



Epimachid^. 



PHlorhis paradisea^ Swains., the rifle bird. This I did not 

 meet with in the coast scrub, but it occurred inland in April, in 

 very poor plumage. 



CUCULID.E. 



Lamprococcyx plagosiis, Lath., the bronze cuckoo, was here 

 during March. 



* L minutillus, Gld., the little bronze cuckoo, also. 



* Scythrops Novre Hollandice, Lath., the channel-bill, was also 

 met with during March. 



Edynamis F indersi, Lath., the koel. These cuckoos, as well as 

 two other bronze cuckoos, leave here in April. 



PSITTACID^. 



* Microglossum aterrimum, Gmel., the great Palm cockatoo, 

 leaves here in April, in which month I met with it in the scrubs 

 inland from the coast. 



Ptistes erythroptertis, Gmel., the red-winged lory, was here 

 in January and February, the birds being young and in poor 

 plumage. 



Flatycercus pallid {ceps,Yig., the Mcn-eton Bay rose-hill, I saw 

 on the 16th April. The three birds I met on this occasion were 

 the only ones seen during my visit. 



Triclioglossus Sivainsonii, Jard. and Selby., the blue-bellied 

 lorikeet, was here during January and February, but their visits 

 are determined by the presence of flowering trees, and are irre- 

 spective of seasons. 



COLUMBIDiE. 



Ptilinopns Swainsonii^ Gld., Swainson's fruit pigeon, does 

 not occur here in January or February, but there are plenty to 

 be met with during April. 



* Lamproteron superbus, Temm. This fruit pigeon is here 

 in numbers throughout the month of March, but they have all 

 left by the middle of April. 



* Myristicivora spilorrlwa, G. R Gray, the white Torres 

 Straits pigeon, leaves here by about the middle of March. 



* Lophaimus nntarcticus, Shaw, the top-knot pigeon, was met 

 with during my visit on its way from the north, but the birds 

 were small and their plumage dirty. 



Though man}' of the birds here enumerated are, as far as our 

 imperfect knowledge goes, restricted to Cape York, a very large 

 proportion (which I have marked *) are natives of New Guinea 

 for some part of the year, whilst others extend to the southern 

 colonies, some even as far as New Zealand, 



