90 
The Queensland Naturalist. 
August, 1926 
]\Iy oAvii kTioA\'ledjre of Queensland natural history is not 
sufficient to enable me to treat its bird life from this 
point of view in a comprehensive fashion, but T have 
endeavoured to su^'g'est tlie lines oti wliich such studies 
should proceed. The harvest truly is ])lcnteous, but the 
labourers are feAV. T trust tliat the Queensland Natura- 
lists’ Cdub Avili coutiuue to i)rospev and to encourafre 
such Avork, atid 1 desire to thank the meiubers for their 
kind support duriun- the yeai* no\v concludetl. 
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NOTES ON STRADBROKE ISLAND. 
(By R. Tllid^e.) 
Easter ajrain found the members of the Field Nat-' 
uralists’ (Tub represented by many of its members of 
botli sexes investig-atinn^ the natural history of this large 
island, Avhieh. togetiier Avith Moreton Island, forms the 
great natural eastern brealavater eueiosing Moreton 
Bay. 
It has not yet — probably will not for many years 
to come — reveale^l all its secrets, as tile short periods of 
time during wTucii membei*s can carry on their Avork, 
preclude much obsevA’ation. 
The Ishiud ill former years Avas fairly Avell knoAA'n 
to me from MoomhireAva to Amity Point, thence to Point 
Look-out. and inland to many of the hi goons. TTviee 1 
made trijis across from Canaijia to the 18-Mile- 
Lagoon.* 
Tlicse Avere chicflv in (juest of birds, subsequently 
followed, hoAvever. by the collecting of shells around 
the beaches and hanks, Avith Amity Point as a base. On 
llie banks many handsome species of coAVi'ics (cy|U'aea) 
AA'crc obtainable amongst these Cypraea ebiirnea avhs the 
rarest. Low water of spring tides, also after licavy 
storms will yield many fine species of shells.^ 
Rince the formation of the jU’esent Field Naturalists’ 
(Tub in lOOh. my attention has been gi\uui more to the 
collecting and study of insects, Avliich even in earh' (lays 
Avere not by any means neglected. Now, Avhat little 
knoAA'ledge T Iuia'c as regards tlie insect fauna oi Strad- 
brokc Island, and my exchanges Avith southern entom- 
ologists, has led me to the conclusion that its fauna in 
*Rirds of Stradbroke Island, by K. lUidge, “Queens- 
land Naturalist.” Vol. III.. No. 6, November,. 1922. 
