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The Qii 'ensland Naturalist. 
March, 1923 
pigeoijs have gone, but the little green pigeon (C. Chry~ 
sochlora) and the whitedhroiited pigeon were at Por- 
poise Point at (■'hristinas. J5ut other day^ft* other manners, 
and neither of tlio-s^ birds M-ere introduced into our stews. 
King quails 1 have not noticed, but the little brown quail 
{Synoiats Australis) was I'unniiig about with her brood 
early in January. The kingfishers hold their own well on 
Stradbroke (Azure, Macieay, Sanctus, and Sordidus), 
togettier Avith jaeka-M-ies and butcher birds. I have no 
doubt the tAvo tatter birds are largely resi)onsib!e for 
the .scarcity of the smaller bird famines — they take 
heavy toll. Blue mountain parrots and ‘‘greenies'’ Avere 
feeding in the banksia and iioney trees in October last. 
They are a hard bird to see when feeding. A year or 
tAvo back parrots, leather heads, and honey-e-aters — a 
nohy throng — Avere feeding in great niim'bers on the Hoav- 
oring grass trees round Myora, and were easily observed. 
Bronze, fantailed, and pallid cuckoos shll tind it easy to 
foist their eggs on the Avdiite-cheeked honey-eaters — those 
birds have groAvn no Aviser than tlieii* forbears. It wa.s 
pathetic to see the little honey-eaters last 01ndstma.sq they 
Avorked from dawn to dark trying to fill the Jiiouths of 
their foster babes. 
Kainbow bird and dollar bird are ahAoiys to be seen 
at the PoMit, but 1 have neAwr seen the scra'b magpie 
there. Our vk'its to the Island may not have 'coincided, 
for I don't think the bird a resident. Stradbroke is a 
Irappy liiniting ground still for both thruslies (harmoiiica 
and rufigaster) No matter wliat point you touch at 
071 the way to Southport you are su7*e to hear a tkrush 
singing close at hand. One little path (near Myora) 
I ha\^e never walked along Avithout see’ug harmonica 
busily searching for grulbs. We called the path ''Tlirusir'^ 
Walk.'* I think, thougli, the thrushes on Stradliroke 
have not the varied song of t'he mountain birds. The pied 
catei'pillai’-ealer .(6\ leucomela) is common all over 
Bti-adbroke, is a very friendly bird, and ■comes down 
readily to a call. 1 do not .see the while-shouldered (C 
humeralis^ so often. Peeweets'. p pits, granculus. and 
AVillie Avagtails are to be found from one end of the Island 
to the other. SAvamp ])heasants, stone, and spur-winged 
plovers, are all there. I woiidei* did the big Avhite-bellied 
■sea ^'^^^{HaliaetusleucogasUr)\\\i^i opposite Willes’s in 
Canaipa Pa'.-^sage in Mr. Illidge’s day. We always see' 
