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him with the Handbook , and also taught the mariner to* 
skin birds. At that time White was the guest of Frank 
Jardine, the intrepid explorer and pioneer of Cape York. 
George Bennett, M.D., author of Gatherings of a 
Naturalist in Australasia (London, 1860), was an English- 
Australian scientist who did good general work, and was a 
friend and helper of Gould. Apparently, Dr. Bennett’s 
only personal acquaintance with this State was when 
he made, in 1871, “A Trip to Queensland in Search of 
Fossils. ”* ITis book, however, contains numerous refer- 
ences to birds whose “headquarters” are in Queensland; 
for instance, the “Kowhat” (Koel Cuckoo), “Paradise 
Honey sucker ' ’ (Rifle-bird), and “King Iloney sucker ’ r 
(Regent-bird). It was a weakness in the old days to place 
many Australian birds among the Honeyeaters; neither of 
the birds so designated by Bennett belongs to that group, 
any more than does the “Coachwhip Iloney sucker ” (Whip- 
bird), of old Dr. Latham. Bennett also has some interest- 
ing notes upon our fine Jabiru, one of which birds he kept 
in captivity, and which he found needed a pound and 
a-half of fresh meat daily to keep it in good condition. 
Dr. E. P. Ramsay was probably the first ornithologist 
to visit Rockingham Bay after Macgillivray. As ornitholo- 
gist to the Sydney Museum, Ramsay was at Cardwell in 
1874. lie also wrote, in the Ibis (England) for 1875 r 
a “List of Birds from Port Denison, Queensland,” but in 
that case specimens were supplied by a Mr. Rainbird. 
Another Northerner who supplied Ramsay with many novel 
or rare bird-specimens in the early seventies was Inspector 
Robert Johnstone, of the Herbert River Police Force. 
Ramsay died at the end of 1916, leaving behind him a 
record of fine service to Australian ornithology. 
The name of Carl Lumholtz may be introduced here. 
It is doubtful, indeed, whether this gentleman should not 
be grouped with the Queenslanders, inasmuch as the greater 
part of his four years in Australia was spent in the outlying 
parts of this great State. Certainly it was his experience 
in Queensland that furnished the material for his book, 
Among Cannibals (an account of four years’ travels in 
Australia, and of camp life with the aborigines of Queens- 
land : London. 1890). Lumholtz, an educated Norwegian, 
was first in Queensland slightly more than forty years ago. 
He spent ten months (1880-81) at the hospitable Gracemere 
Station, after which he set out (August, 1881) on an 800- 
miles tour of West Queensland. That experience was 
* From a thorough memoir by Henry Try on, written when Dr. 
Bennett died, at Sydney, in 1893, at the age of eighty-nine years. 
