April, 1922 The Queensland Naturalist. 73 
colonists of New South Wales erected a marble tablet to 
the memory of Gilbert in the old St. James’ Church, 
Sydney. Members of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists’ 
Union attended a memorial service there in October, 1911, 
and laid a wreath of wild flowers on the tablet. 
F. Strange was the second of Gould’s collectors to fall 
a victim to the Queensland blacks. He seems to have 
The White-faced Robin ( Poecilodryus capito), at home in a 
Lawyer-vine, South-eastern Queensland. 
(This species was discovered in the early days by F. Strange, 
one of John Gould’s collectors, who was killed by blacks. 
Photo taken with left hand, while right hand is near the 
mother-bird. ) 
[Photo by A. H. Chisholm. 
worked mostly, and very successfully, about the Northern 
Rivers of New South Wales (whence he sent Gould the first 
specimen he had seen of the Albert Lyre-bird), but came to 
Queensland later and worked north of Moreton Bay. He 
was killed by aborigines on one of the Percy Islands in, 
or about, 1854. (The date is erroneously given in one work 
