The Queensland Naturalist. 
August, 1922 
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BIRD SEEKING IN QUEENSLAND* 
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By A. IT. Ciiisholm, R.A.O.U. 
Part 2 . 
We leave now the era of geographical exploration of 
Queensland and come to the work of residents and indi- 
vidual visitors. Firstly, consider the visitors. 
Throughout the writings of John Gould there is 
frequent mention of the name of Samuel White, of Adelaide. 
This gentleman was -a keen naturalist, and it is somewhat 
remarkable, as Mr. A. J. Campbell points out,f that he was 
not renowned for research. He was to have accompanied 
the Burke and Wills expedition, but came instead on a 
general collecting tour of Queensland in 1867. Making 
inland from Cleveland Bay (Townsville), White’s party 
encountered great privations, and ultimately returned to 
the coast at Port Denison. Thence they worked down past 
Brisbane, and across the Maepherson Range into New 
South Wales. 
Later, Mr. White fitted out a boat called the E/sea 
;and went north, intending to visit Cape York, New Guinea, 
and the Aru Islands. After leaving the Arus, his crew 
mutinied and locked him in his cabin, whence he was 
rescued, it is said, by J. T. Cockerell and F. W* Andrews, 
two of his collectors. The boat was subsequently pillaged, 
th$ collections sold, and the diaries lost. However, much 
of the history of these trips has been collected from private 
sources by S. A. White (son) and published in the South 
Australian Ornithologist . White, senr., died on 17th No- 
, vember, 1880. 
An interesting link with White, senr., and through 
him with Gould, is offered by Captain C. E. Pennefather, 
a retired mariner, of Brisbane, who is the possessor of the 
two volumes of Gould’s Handbook , autographed by the 
author as a presentation to his friend White. The latter 
was met and assisted by Captain Pennefather when he 
(the captain) was pearl-shell fishing in Torres Strait in 
The seventies. lie took the ornithologist on several cruises 
in his vessel, the Crinoline , and in return White presented 
* * k The Ornithological History of Queensland”; Presidential 
Address, 6th March, 1922. 
t” Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds”: Intro. 
