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The Queensland Naturalist. 
December, 1926 
A vote of thanks to Professor Richards was carried 
on the motion of Dr. A. Jeffries Turner, seconded by Mr 
F. 0. Nixon. 
Exhibit. — Mr. Conrad Dornbusch, of Warwick, for- 
warded for exhibit a capsule of the Crow's Ash (Flin- 
•dersia australis), showing four instead of the usual five 
valves. 
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LAKES AND MIDDENS ON STRADBROKE ISLAND. 
(By J. E. Young.) 
The Field Naturalists’ Easter camp-out at the “One 
Mile,’’ on Stradbroke Island, would hardly have been 
complete without a visit to the lakes, and accordingly 
one fine morning seventeen of our total number (24), 
and including both sexes, set out for the big day of 
the trip. 
The first lake, sometimes known as the brown lake, 
and to the natives as “Boomera,” was reached in a 
couple of miles. Appropriately about three-quarters of 
a mile long and in places over a quarter of a mile wide, 
it has shallow margins, with a fringe of reeds, most 
pronounced at the southern end, and otherwise with a 
fair depth of water throughout, and closely wooded to 
the margin, except to the south, from whence we got a 
fine view. 
Passing on, we noted, and of course, stayed to 
photograph a nest of English bees; it could hardly be 
called a hive, though there were three combs suspended 
from a partly fallen cypress, and a considerable number 
of active bees. 
On our way birds of various kinds were seen : 
Leatherheads, honey-eaters of various species, bar- 
shouldered doves, a bird which may have been the Olive 
Whistler,* for it did not seem to belong to the com- 
*This is rather an unlikely record, the Olive Whistler, 
•so far as is known in Queensland, being confined to the 
Beech-forests of the Lamington National Park. Mr. Young’s 
T)ird is the one probably which has been puzzling local orni- 
thologists for some time. Until specimens have been cap 
lured, the correct identification of the bird will be in doubt. 
- — Ed. 
