The Queensland Natu^alis^ 
April, 1921 
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from the mainland bird, and which is common and shy 
.among the graSvS-tree areas inland — the Brush Wattle, and 
the Little, Blue, and Green (Sealy-breasted) Lorikeets. 
These Honey Parrots were numerous. Usually they 
are only seen in such numbers during the summer, and 
their autumnal “rallies” have revived a belief, once current 
-among the blacks, that ‘'big fellow” mol>s of these Parrots 
are ahvays follow-ed by “big fellow” lots of mullet hsh 
along the coast. iMr. Thomas Welsby, who has had long 
■experience of Stradbroke Island, shares this belief, and an 
■effort is being made at present to discover a reason for 
the (jiieer affinity between l)ird and fish. 
TRANSACTIONS. 
PEOG-EATING CARABS — Catadromns lacordairei. 
By Mrs. iM. I. Hobler, Jandowae. 
The following incidents may interest many of the 
members of the Field Naturalists' Club, as so far I have 
not been able to hear of any one else wdio has found these 
carabs (Catadronufs lacordairei) actually devouring frogs 
of an ordinary size. 
AVe found the first victim a good few years ago, when, 
one evening, our attention -was drawm by the continual 
croak of a frog in pain. Thinking a snake w'as probably the 
trouble, w^e provided ourselves wdth a stick and lantern; 
then, under a petunia bush, the frog w^as tpiiekly located. 
Fastened to its side w'as a splendid specimen of C, lacor- 
dairci, which the poor frog, with A^ain leaps and rolls on 
the ground, was trying to dislodge. 
1 captured this caral), but it took a good pull to make 
it let go its victim. Later on, we found another frog under 
much the same circumstances. 
We did not hear any others until February of last 
year, when one evening, after several days of heaAw rain, 
Ave again heard the distressed croak of a frog. (Perhaps it 
w’^ould be as Avell to mention here that to the bushman, 
A\'oman, or child this alarm cry signals '‘snake,” and a 
search is generally made at once — indeed, the frogs Avere 
the means of us finding more than one black snake on our 
veranda this summer.) On that cAaming >ve had a visitor, 
and, the garden being muddy, no move w'as made for a 
hunt ; but later Ave found the frog, which Avas carried into 
the rooiii and put on the table. 
