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The Queensland Naturalist. August, 1937. 
The brown pigeon, also known as pheasant or long- 
tailed pigeon, eats berries about the borders of scrubs, 
and is sometimes seen in small flocks. 
There is also the white-headed pigeon, and the little 
green pigeon which has white shoulders. 
Of the birds belonging purely or mainly to the forest 
there are: — 
The brown quail and the stone curlew. The bronze- 
wing pigeon, Phaps chalcoptera. The peaceful dove and 
the bar shoulder dove may be found in suitable places, 
and their familiar voices, cloo-oo and wock-a-woo, may be 
often heard. 
Strangely enough, there is a colony of the western 
crested pigeon, Ocyphaps lophotes, either escapees from 
an aviary or driven down by drought, now established 
some two or three years at one spot right adjacent to the 
park, and probably crossing the boundary. They are in- 
creasing in numbers and will probably be seen in parts of 
the park before long. Some of these were seen at our last 
Easter camp. 
Cockatoos are represented by the white cockatoo, 
Caeatua galerita. This, when farm crops are not avail- 
able, feeds about the ground on the borders of scrubs on 
various bulbous roots, grain, seeds, etc. 
The red-tailed black cockatoo, C. banskii, and the 
yellow-tailed, C. funereus, may both be seen at times. 
They are slow of flight and live on wood-boring larvae, 
caterpillars, casuarina, and other seeds. 
The king parrot and the crimson rosella or mountain 
lowry, also the pale-headed rosella, the musk, and scaly 
breasted lorikeets, as well as the rainbow lorikeet, all find 
their living in their various ways. There are also the 
magpie lark, pied and grey butcher birds, black-backed 
magpie, scrub magpie, and crows. 
The boobook owl and the frogmouth also add their 
distinctive voices at night. 
The kookaburra, Dacelo gigas, can always be seen, as 
can the forest and sacred kingfishers, Halcyon macleayi 
and IT. sanctus, while the blue kingfisher, Alcyone azurea, 
shows its bright colours flitting about the streams. 
Some other birds of the forest, though not a full list, 
are : — 
The brown gervgone, silvereye, black and white fan- 
tail, restless flycatcher, brown flycatcher or “Jacky 
Winter,” leaden flycatcher, rose robin, blue and red- 
backed wrens, brown thornbill, weebill, mistletoe bird, 
pardalote sp., white-throated and brown tree-creepers, 
white-headed sitella, and red-browed and double-banded 
finches. 
