July, 1931. 
lOO The Queensland Naturalist 
tinction is the dull grey of his breast and the vivid blue on 
wings and back ; his call is loud and harsh, with no sugges- 
tion of laughter. Then we saw a pair of grey jumpers 
(Struthidea cinerea) building a nest in a tree by the road- 
side. It is very like a pee-wee’s nest, placed 011 a horizontal 
branch and built of mud. Stopping to look at twelve zebra 
finches (Taeniopygia castanotis) sitting in a gay little row 
011 the fence, we saw a pair of black-headed pahdalotes 
(Pardalotus melanocephalus) going in and out of their hole 
in the bank. 
A little wood swallow (Artamus minor) perched on a 
fence long enough for us to see that it has no white 011 its 
tail as the dusky wood swallow has. Tree martins (Ilylo- 
chelidon nigricans) were building in a dead gum, some 
going in at a hole at one side and some at another — com- 
munity nesting. A number of double-bar finches (Stegano- 
pleura Bichenovii) were the first our Victorian visitors 
had seen, and they found a nest half built, a grass nest 
with a bottle neck very like that of a red-browed finch 
(Aegintha temporalis) but rather neater. 
A pippit (Anthus australis) ran before us over the 
grass and then rose with its curving flight, showing the 
white on the outer tail feathers. As we left the car beside 
the road where there was a small piece of water with some 
reeds under a huge gum tree, a pair of black ducks (Anas 
superciliosa) flew up; a restless fly-catcher (Seisura in- 
quieta) evidently had a nest high up in the tree. We 
walked across the creek, which was very beautiful in the 
early morning light, with great trees about it and sloping 
grassy banks with bushes overhanging the water in some 
places and in others a wide gravelly shore, the water rip- 
pling and gurgling over stones, and the shoulder of the 
great Bluff as a background. 
A blue-faced honey-eater (Entomyzon cyanotis) was 
nesting in an old babbler’s nest, and there were numbers of 
these handsome birds about, A koel (Eudynamys orient - 
alis) was calling and flying round, and probably had its 
egg in one of the honey-eaters’ nests. A pied butcher bird 
(Cracticus nigrogularis) had a nest high up in a stringy- 
bark. There were numbers of scaly -breasted lorikeets 
(Trichoglossus chlorolepidotus) , one small young one was 
rescued dripping from the creek and most ungratefully 
made fierce bites at the fingers of its rescuer with its sharp 
beak. It was very interesting to see its lovely colouring at 
such close quarters. 
There were gorgeous rainbow or Blue Mountain lori- 
keets (Trich^sdossus moluccanus), too, and several orioles 
(Oriolus saggitatus), another bird which is an unwilling 
