July, 1931. 
103 
The Queensland Naturalist 
There were a few varied trillers (Lalage leucoinela) 
and some white-cheeked honey-eaters (Meliornis nigra), 
the nest of which was also found. Another honey-eater 
new T to us all was the dusky (Myzomela obscura), a little 
brown bird with a rufous breast and the curved bill of its 
kind ; in one flowering eucalypt there were dozens of 
them; they are confined to Northern Australia and 
Queensland. 
There was a giant fig-tree near the camp which at- 
tracted numbers of birds, mostly fig-birds (Spheeotheres) 
vieilloti), but we also saw several pigeons, the white-headed 
(Columba. norfolkiensis), the green-winged (Chalcophaps 
chrysochlora ) , the red-crowned (Ptilinopus ewingi), a bird 
of many colours, and the wompoo (Megaloprepia mag- 
nifica) and the pheasant pigeon (Macropygia phasian- 
ella). On this tree we saw the rare barred cuckoo-shrike 
(Coracina lineata) several times, and, there were many 
lewin honey-eaters and a bronze cuckoo. , 
The whip-birds (Psophodes olivaceous) were very 
numerous round the camp. They began calling at the 
earliest dawn but not before the yellow robins (Eopsaltria 
chrysorrhoa). The rufous thrush (Colluricincla megar- 
hyncha) was the finest singer in the early morning, with 
its full flute-like song. A great contrast to it were the 
black cockatoos (Calyptorhynchus funereus) and the 
white ones (Kakatoe galerita), too, these great birds looked 
lovely sail-high up in the air with the sun on their daz- 
zling plumage tinged with yellow under the wings as 
though the sunlight were shining through. 
. There Were a few drongos (Chibia bracteata) with 
their peculiar half harsh, half musical calls; dollar-birds 
(Eurystomus orientalis), too, their call rather like a duck’s 
quack. 
A spectacled fly-catcher (Monarcha trivirgata) and 
its nest were found, and rarest of all, a white-eared fly- 
catcher (Carterornis leucolis) was found with its nest, 
“The Emu,” speaking of this find, says, “the taking of 
the first authentic eggs of this species was probably the 
most important piece of ornithological work achieved at a 
Union Camp-out for many years.” 
A pair of rainbow-birds (Merops ornatus) had a 
burrow near the house, and with the aid of a mirror we 
could see the five white eggs in the nest chamber at the end. 
We visited a lake five miles from the camp but found 
almost no life on it. a few musk-duck (Riziura lobata) and 
a cormorant (Phalacrocorax sp?), nothing more on the 
water but on the shores were white-cheeked and lewin 
and scarlet honey-eaters (Myzomela sanguinolenta), mis- 
