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The Queensland Naturalist. 
August, 1937. 
lias a loud call resembling “walk to work,” is a ground 
bird, and an inveterate enemy to land snails, which it eats 
after carrying for breaking purposes to a convenient stone 
or root. 
The regent bower bird, Sericulus chrysocephalus , a 
most beautiful bird in gold and black, the female being 
grey with a black cap, makes a playground and occasion- 
ally a bower, decorated with land snail shells, leaves and 
berries, lives on insects, berries, wild and garden fruits. 
The males do not attain full plumage for some years. 
The satin bower bird, Ptilonorhynchus viola reus, is 
quite numerous and builds a bower ornamented by any 
articles of blue, such as feathers, glass, blue bags and 
berries, and even blackens the inside walls by means of 
charcoal moistened in its mouth. It is a fruit eater and 
is not liked by orchardists. 
The rare olive whistler, Pachycephala olivacea , was 
first identified in the park in 1919 by Chisholm, though the 
strange voice had been noted for some years previously. 
The golden whistler, P. pect oralis, is a beautiful bird, 
with a fine voice and appreciates the thicker areas rather 
than the open forests. 
The eastern shrike tit, Fulcimculus front atus , is a beau- 
tiful crested bird with similar colours to the last, 
usually keeps high up in the trees, and has a powerful beak 
for tearing bark when searching for insects. It is not par- 
ticularly numerous. 
The eastern whip bird, Psophodes olivaceus, is a great 
favourite but rather shy, frequently heard in scrubs or 
about jungly gullies. Its whiplike call and the reply being 
distinctive and unique. It tears bark off trees, and turns 
over bark and leaves in search of insects. I see that this 
bird has recently been credited with a quite good imitation 
of other bird voices. I hope to hear it doing so ere long. 
The paradise rifle bird, Ptiloris paradisea , is beautiful 
in shot green and black, lives on insects secured under the 
bark of tree trunks, fruits, &c., and ornaments its nest 
with green ferns and discarded snake skins. Tt is fre- 
quently seen about the edge of the rain forest, but not in 
the open. 
The foregoing birds alone, all more or less inhabitants 
of the scrub, are sufficient to place the Park in a high posi- 
tion amongst such places; there are. however, many more 
scrub dwellers as well as those of the more open spaces. 
Amongst these are the green cat bird, Ailuroedus cras- 
sirostis , which ranks with the bower birds, but builds no 
bower, it is very common in places and its call closely 
resembling the “miaou” of a cat is well-known to visitors 
to the scrubs, 
