March, 1923 
The Queensland Naturalist. 
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SOME BIRDS OF STRADBROKE ISLAND OF 
TO-DAY 
By MRS. MAYO. 
Following on Mr. Illidge’-sf article “Birds of Strad- 
broke Island observed during tlie years 1868-1880/’ a 
few notes on tlie birds of the Island at the present d-ay 
may prove interesting. For the last decade onr holidays 
and odd vrcek-ends have been spent cruis'ing between the 
Brisbane River and southern end oi' Moreton Bay — that 
end of Stradbroke opposite Southport Iming usually head- 
([iiarters during the (hiristmas and Easter periods. Very 
little of 1he jungle at Porpoise Point is left; humans are- 
responsible tor the disappearanee of the orchids, stag- 
horns. and hirdne.s-t fern; and the always encroaching 
sand has qu' le covered some of the jungle towards the 
bar, while lots, of the big trees have been undermined and 
Avashed aAvay by the sea. Satin bird, cat bird, I’egent 
bird, and powerful owt must have gone many years ago — 
for I have not observed them in the ten years of my 
island wanderings. Bright little “^^elloAv bob” 
{Eopsaliria chrysorrhoa) still flashes about the scrub 
between the s-helter shed and the ocean beach, but the 
large-headed and hooded robins are away — 1 hough I have 
seen the hooded robin round Myoi'a — hut vcjy rarely. 
Gerigone albogulari.< (the little native canary) has. 
gone; but its place has been taken by the equally '^weet- 
voiced Gerigone canUitor — the last is to be heard 
amongst the mangroves and all along the foreshores of 
the bay. Of the honey-eaters the “little brown” 
rnaiops oaiiaris and the Avhite-cheeked {M. sericea) 
are t)retty well all over the island, and 1 noticed them 
bo'th in great ^numjbers round the Point iu October, and 
again in December, 1922. in the banks* a at Curragee 
the singing honey-eater (Ptilods Sonora) and the yelloAV 
tufted auricomis) were very lively. Leather heads. 
(corriiculatuSy citireogu laris, and another kind that 
I have not been able to identify), together with brush 
wattle birds also fill the air with their breezy chatter. 
They are on the island all the year round. Most of the 
