November, IQ2 2. 
The Queensland Naturalist. 
121 
taking all aspects of Australian natural history, both field 
and cabinet, into consideration, it is doubtful whether 
there is any naturalist who possesses as broad a knowledge 
as Henry Try on. 
There is one other naturalist, of seventy years, who ranks 
high in the history of bird study in Queensland. He has never 
resided in Brisbane, his whole experience in this State 
having been gained in the rich North. I refer to Mr. E. J. 
Bahfield, of Dunk Island. Twenty-five years ago Mr. 
Banfield, then engaged upon a Townsville newspaper, 
became very sick, and went to Dunk Island, as a last resort. 
There health came back to him, and there he and his little 
wife have been living very rationally ever since. What- 
ever ‘‘The Beachcomber ” has lost in the way of human 
society has been repaid him by the companionship of 
Nature, and around the birds in particular he has written 
many eloquent sketches in liis three well-known books.* 
No one has done more to make the birds of our great North- 
land popularly known. 
How fitting it is, too, that such a bird-lover should be 
stationed against Rockingham Bay! It was on Dunk 
Island that Macgillivray did memorable work nearly eighty 
years ago, and it was the same locality (with dreamy little 
Cardwell as a centre) that witnessed the activities of the 
naturalists of the Fly, the RaWesnake, and the Tam o’ 
Shalt ter. When it is added that Cardwell has been, vari- 
ously, the headquarters of Ramsay, Campbell. Lumholtz, 
Broadbent, and others, it will be recognised that the dis- 
trict is the most notable one in Queensland from the 
ornithological viewpoint. 
There are one or two others to be mentioned, and we 
have done with residents of Queensland prominent in 
ornithology. Anthony Alder (a capable artist), W. J. 
Weatherill (who discovered and named the overlooked 
“Brisbane Canary / 7 Gerygone cant at or ), and J. Colclough 
have all been attached to the Queensland Museum as taxi- 
dermists or collectors. Hermann Lau, a correspondent of 
Campbell, wrote much of interest about the birds in the 
course of minstrel wanderings in Southern Queensland. 
E. M. Cornwall, now of Maekay, is another who gave 
Campbell much information about North Queensland birds f 
he succeeded H. Tryon as State secretary of the R.A.O.U. 
Gre:rorv M. Mathews, now celebrated for cabinet research 
work in Australian ornithology (in England), and the 
compiler of a monument a' work, The Birds of Australia, 
* ‘ ‘ Confessions of a Beachcomber/* “My Tropic Isle,” i{ Tropic 
Days. ’ 1 
