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The Queensland Naturalist. 
August, 1922 
his latest visit was as recent as five years ago. Nests and 
Eggs of Australian Birds (Mr. Campbell \<f fine book) is 
replete with observations gathered in North Queensland. 
Mr. Campbell was born in Melbourne in 1853, and still 
resides there. 
D. Le Souef, another Melbourne veteran, has also made 
several fruitful trips to North Queensland, and much 
research work has been accomplished in recent years by 
collectors sent out by Mr. H. L. White, of ‘ ‘ Belltrees, ’ ’ 
Scone, New South Wales, notably S. W. Jackson and 
Wm. McLennan. The work of the latter has been confined 
to the wilds of the North, but Jackson’s bird-seeking has led 
him into all parts of Queensland. Dr. W. D. Macgillivray, 
of Broken Hill (an ex-President of the R.A.O.U.) is 
another ornithologist known to Queensland. He spent 
many of his early years on a station property in the Gulf 
country, and has since visited various coastal areas. Dr. 
Macgillivray is a connection of two distinguished departed 
ornithologists, William Macgillivray, of Scottish birds fame, 
and John Macgillivray of the Rattlesnake . 
The last Southern ornithologist to visit Queens- 
land was Captain S. A. White, of Adelaide, who 
came to report on the food of birds in our State 
forests. At present there is an American col- 
lector in the field, II. C. Raven, who is working 
North Queensland in the interests of the American 
Museum of Natural History. His visit, and the recent one 
of C. M. Hoy, representing the Washington Museum, con- 
stitute the debut of American field ornithologists in 
Queensland. 
Turning to residents of Queensland who have been 
prominent in ornithology, it has to be noted at once that, 
in this respect, no one stood higher in the early days of 
the colony than Coxen and Higgles. Chares Coxen was a 
brother-in-law of John Gould,* with whom he and, I think, 
his brother came to Australia in 1838. It would appear that, 
for a little time. Coxen was associated with Gould in collect- 
ing in New South Wales. He then engaged in pastoral 
pursuits on the Hunter River, and subsequently moved north 
to the Darling Downs, and took up the now well-known 
Jondaryan sheep station. “In this enterprise,” says the 
* Henniker Heaton’s “Dictionary of Dates’ ’ (1879) confuses 
Coxen with Gilbert by announcing that the latter was a brother-in-law 
of Gould, whereas he was really a professional collector. 
