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The Queensland Naturalist 
July, 1931. 
scores, friar-birds (Philemon corniculatus) and orioles 
(Oriolus saggitatus), all feeding in the great fig-trees, and 
honey-eaters of several kinds, including the black-chinned 
(Melithreptus laetior), which is so like the familiar white- 
naped (M. lunatus). There was a varied trill er (Lalage 
leucomela) with a nest in a tall pine-tree, and sitting on 
its one egg which is the usual clutch for the species. The 
nest is very small and exceedingly shallow for the size of 
l he bird, which, when brooding, entirely hides the nest 
from view. 
We left Maryborough at 10 a.m. on the Government 
steamer “Relief' 7 and sailed down the Mary River for 20 
miles, and then five miles across the Bay to Fraser Island. 
We saw a number of birds going down and again going 
up cn our return journey. There were the lordly white- 
breasted sea-eagle (Haliaeetus leucogaster), and the even 
more beautiful red-backed sea-eagle (Haliastur indus) ; 
one of these had a fish in its claws which it fed on as it 
floated lazily along. There was a great white osprey 
(Pandion haliaetus) perched high up in a tree; whistling 
eagles (Haliastur sphenurus), hawks and harriers, crested 
terns and silver gulls, pelicans and shags were all numer- 
ous. There were about a dozen black swans (Chenopis 
atrata), a great white egret (Egretta alba), a white-faced 
heron (Notophoyx novae-holand : ae), two darters (Anhinga 
novae-hollandiae), and at last, what our Victorian visitors 
were very anxious to see, two jabirus (Xenorhynchus 
asiaticus) . 
We were taken first on the timber train and then in a 
four-horse German waggon to the Forestry camp, where a 
large empty house was placed at our disposal by the kind- 
ness of the Forestry Board, which made a very comfortable 
nucleus for our camp. 
We thought at first that there were not going to be 
many birds, but eventually we found a good many, though 
it is certainly not an ideal bird locality. By far the most 
numerous species was the little brown tit (Acanthiza 
pusilla) . One could hear their little “tzit-tzit” ending in 
a sweet warble in every bush. There were a great many 
lewin honey -eaters (Meliphaga lewini), and we found the 
nest of one with two eggs in it, pearly white, with minute 
reddish Jots and blotches. The nest was a beautiful thing, 
suspended from two thin twigs of a pine-tree about twelve 
feet up. It was made chiefly of thin strips of paper-bark 
fastened with spider-web and laced all over with strands of 
bright green moss, and was thickly lined with the brown 
velvety down of the Macrozamia Douglasii. 
