February, 1937 The Queensland Naturalist 
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In concluding this account, I desire to express my 
sincere thanks to Mr. C. T. White and Mr. W. D. Fran- 
cis, who have rendered me valuable help in identifying 
for me many of the plants named in this paper. 
RANDOM BIRD NOTES. 
By MRS. W. M. MAYO. 
MANGROVE CANARY (GREY GONE CANT AT OR). 
During a stay at Brunswick Heads (N.S.W.) in the 
last week of August, 1936, I found many mangrove 
canaries among the mangroves at the river mouth. 
The birds were in fine song, and the school children 
of Brunswick Heads called them, “Jacky Mangrove,” 
and described the nest as “a little round cup with a 
long tail.” 
The range of the Cantator is given as South-eastern 
Queensland in all ornithological books, so it is of interest 
to know that the bird’s range extends well into New 
South Wales. 
Another bird whose range extends beyond the limit 
fixed by ornithologists is the White-eared Fly-catcher 
( Carterosnis leucotis). I found the bird in the coastal 
scrub at Burleigh last year. 
The Sacred Kingfisher ( Halcyon sane (us) does not 
seem to have migrated further north during the last 
winter, for in all my field excursions in those months I 
saw many of the birds in Queensland and northern New 
South Wales. 
A visit to Sandgate lagoons in September proved 
disappointing. A dry spell such as we have lately ex- 
perienced, usually means that the wild fowl flock to the 
lagoons at Sandgate, but the observer found little of in- 
terest there in September. The scarcity of numbers of 
the different species came as a shock to the habitual ob- 
server. 
A few Black Duck, one Whistling Tree Duck, a 
counle of pair of Teal, the same of White-eyed Duck, a 
hall dozen Lotus birds, one Black-fronted Dotterel, a 
small number of Black-throated Grebes, Eastern Swamp- 
hens, Coots, and a Moor-Hen or two, with a pair of little 
Black Cormorants, and another few of the small Pied 
Cormorants (the fresh water species) were the sum total 
of the birds seen. The only unusual bird was the Spotted 
Crane (Porzcma flaminea), one specimen of which proved 
not at all shy, for a wonder, but picked about well away 
from the reed bed, and allowed us a very good look at a 
beautiful bird, 
