November, 1922 
The Queensland Naturalist. 
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one, as may be seen from the specimen, now mounted, back 
in its old resting-place, the Queensland Museum. 
We come close to the present day when it is mentioned 
that a further Queensland name to appear in Gould’s Birds 
of Australia (Supplement) is that of Kendall Broadbent. 
There are several in this room who were acquainted with 
Mr. Broadbent, and all agree that he was one of the 
soundest and most thorough field naturalists Australia has 
known. Bom in Yorkshire in 1837, Broadbent came to 
Victoria with his father, Joseph Broadbent, and other 
members of the family in 1853. For several years he 
worked with his father at contracting, between whiles 
studying natural history, particularly ornithology. His 
first success came when he secured what proved to be a 
new Bristle-bird, at a spot 24 miles from Portland. Victoria. 
This bird was called by Professor McCoy, of the Melbourne 
Museum, Svltenura I broadbenzi , and the skin was loaned to 
Gould for illustration. 
From the sixties onward Broadbent followed natural 
history pursuits for a livelihood, and undertook several 
missions to the North on behalf of museums and private 
gentlemen. He was one of the survivors of the brm Maria . 
which was wrecked on Bramble Beef, off Hinchinbrook 
Island, in February, 1871. tin that rescue the BaMlish 
took a notable part.) In 1881 Broadbent was appointed 
taxidermist to the Queensland Museum, and from that time 
until the end of the century he made many important trips 
throughout various parts of the State. Tie took quite a 
number of new birds, one of which, a North Queensland 
species, first taken in 1889, still is known as “ Broadbent ’s 
Ground-Thrush.” He wrote, too, numerous papers on the 
subject, notable among them being treatises on the birds of 
Ca^dwel], Cepe York. Bell end en-Ker. Central Queensland, 
and Chinchilla. Several of his papers were printed in the 
proceedings of the old Natural History Society, the pre- 
cursor of the Field Naturalists’ Club: others appeared in 
the Proceedings of the Boyal Societv: and at least ope was 
published in the This, the journal of the British Ornitholo- 
gists ’ Union. Broadbent lived to be honoured bv the 
P A O T r wh°n members visited Queensland m 1910- t»e 
died in tho following year. His was a notable career in 
Queensland ornithology: he was not a writer of books, but 
could wax very entertaining in talking of his life-stud v 
Closelv associated with Broadbent ’s name is that of 
Charles W. He Vis, for long curator of the Queensland 
Museum. De Vis’s work was chiefly systematic, and it 
was highly valued among the scientists of other countries 
