The Queensland Naturalist 
August, 1938 
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who always seems to appear about the same time as the 
Cicada Bird. Whether this is because he also preys upon 
the Cicadas 1 am unable to say, but the appearance of 
these two birds always seems to coincide with the appear- 
ance of these insect hosts. 
An occasional springtime visitor is the Reed Warbler 
who, as his name implies, is a creature of watery country, 
where he may chortle day and night to his heart’s con- 
tent. He sometimes takes it into his head to make 
excursions round the countryside, so is seen at times 
along the creeks and watercourses of the reserve. 
Another springtime migrant is the Oriole, whose 
continual call can be heard all through the day. He 
also has some powers of mimicry. The Fig Bird is 
found in large flocks whenever there are some species 
of fig in fruit. In Brisbane he seems very numerous 
in the winter months. 
The two species of Pardalotes, the Spotted and 
Black-headed, always visit the reserve in large numbers 
to nest in the winter. The Spotted, a brilliant little 
fellow, generally keeps to the tree-tops during the rest 
of the year, but resorts to the banks of the creeks to build 
his nest, and is very tame and easy to approach. The 
Black-headed nests in similar situations, and his loud 
“Chip! Chip! Chip! ,, is a familiar sound during the 
autumn and winter months. 
ACCIDENTAL BIRDS AND STRAYS 
Strolling through the reserve in the vicinity of the 
Dams, I was astonished to see a male Regent Bower 
Bird fly overhead, and some time later I noted the 
Green-winged Pigeon on two occasions, and the Brown 
Pigeon once. As these birds are habitually residents of 
rain-forest country and would be totally unable to 
secure an existence in the type of country offered by 
Mt. Coot-tha. I can only account for their appearance 
by the fact that bush fires were raging in the neighbour- 
ing ranges, where rain forest would be found, and these 
creatures had been driven out of their natural haunt 
into strange territory. 
Strange visitors also were a pair of Scarlet Robins, 
a species totally foreign to these parts, noted on one 
occasion in the winter of 1936. I am unable even to 
give a guess as to how they got there. About the same 
time I came upon a large flock of Yellow-tipped or 
Striated Pardalotes, a bird not usually seen in this part 
of the country, and they were in such large numbers 
that a mistake in identification was impossible, and 
