Feb., 1942 
The Queensland Naturalist 
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related to the earthworms but living in the water and not 
in the soil. They grow to a little over half an inch in 
length and prefer to live in the cavities around the eyes 
of the host. The fourth species is a true parasite living 
attached to the inner side of the carapace. It is a mite. 
The larger specimens look like distended ticks firmly 
imbedded in the tissues of the crayfish. 
REPORT ON BIRDS SEEN AT RUNNING CREEK, 
EASTER CAMP, 1941. 
By George H. Barker and N. Jack. 
Those members of the Naturalists’ Club at the Easter 
Camp this year who are interested in Birds found nothing 
to surprise them in the Bird life of the area. The list 
discloses nothing that we did not expect to see and fails 
to show a number that are known and previously recorded 
from the area. Why this was so, is difficult to explain, 
excepting that the entensive clearing of the surrounding 
country both along the creek and along the foot hills is 
probably the real reason. This denudation means dis- 
appearance of food supply for many birds formerly 
abundant here, and they have died out without breeding, 
as has happened in so many other regions in this State. 
Our list runs to sixty-five different species, but as 
many of these were solitary specimens or just pairs, it 
looks better than it really is, and it is safe to say that the 
number of species at all plentiful were well under twenty. 
This is very sad, but no doubt inevitable in the March of 
Settlement. 
LIST. 
6. 
7. 
8. 
9. 
10 . 
11 . 
12 . 
1. 
2. 
3. 
4. 
Brush Turkey. 
Stubble Quail. 
Bar Shouldered Dove. 
Wonga Pigeon. 
Dusky Moor Hen. 
Spur-winged Plover. 
White-faced Heron. 
Black Duck. 
Nankeen Kestrel. 
Wedge-tailed Eagle. 
Brown Hawk. 
Sooty Owl. 
33. Grey Shrike Thrush. 
34. Magpie Lark. 
35. Eastern Whipbird. 
36. Black-faced Cuckoo-Shrike. 
37. Southern Chowchilla. 
38. White-throated Warbler. 
39. Brown Thornbill. 
40. Yellow-tailed Thornbill. 
41. White-browed Scrub Wren. 
42. Supberb Blue Wren. 
43. Red-backed Wren. 
44. Dusky Wood Swallow. 
