TAWNY FROGMOUTH. 
I have but few local notes concerning them. I found a nest (10th October) 
containing two white downy chicks, situated on a horizontal limb of a gidea 
tree. I only lifted one of the youngsters to examine it, yet on my way home 
in the evening I found the nest empty, and the old birds nowhere about, the 
chicks having been removed, I suppose, by the old birds, which were both at 
the nest in the morning.” 
Macgillivray, writing about North Queensland birds {Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 158, 
1914), records : “ Podargus bracJiypterus. Shortwmged Frogmouth. Several 
skins of a small Podargus were sent from the Gulf country by Mr. M‘Lennan. 
Thev were referred to this species by Mr. A. J. North, to whom they 
were submitted. The species ranges over the whole of central, western, and 
north-western Australia, Northern Territory, and western and north-western 
Queensland. Irides are yellow, bill and legs light olive-brown. Stomach 
contained beetles and grasshoppers. Mr. M‘Lennan heard a caU which he 
attributed to this bird ; it was like ‘ Koo loo, koo loo,’ repeated from twelve 
to twenty times in succession.” 
“ Podargus phalcenoides. Freckled Frogmouth. Skins of a small Podargus 
from the Jardine River, Cape York Peninsula, collected in open forest, were 
submitted to Mr. North, who is of opinion that they closely approach Gould’s 
description of this species. Gould’s specimens came from North-west Australia- 
Irides, outer circle golden-brown, inner orange-yellow ; bill dark brown ; legs 
I)ale olive. Stomach contained beetles. They were found frequenting the 
open forest country. Mr. Wheatley found several nests containing each a pair 
of eggs in the open country bordering the Batavia and Ducie rivers during the 
past season.” 
The Gulf form was that called by Masters Podargus gouldi, and the Cape 
York form is hereafter distinguished. It is, however, noteworthy that the 
conservative North separated these two forms. 
Alex. W. Milligan, reporting on a trix3 to the Wongan Hills, W’^est Australia 
{Emu, Vol. IV., p. 2, 1904), gives two plates, one of nest in situ and young of 
Frogmouth and the other of an adult beside nest, commenting : “We observed 
two nests, each containing two young ones. The first one was discovered in an 
isolated Casuarina belt on the lake country, and so closely did the nest and 
young resemble the surrounding branches that we shoiild have passed within 
a yard of it had not the parent bird flown away and thus drawn our attention. 
The nest itself was an ill-constructed, shallow, flimsy structure, the builders 
having evidently relied to a great degree on the inclined fork and under twigs 
of the dead sapling for the strength of the structure. The second one 
was disco\'ered by our driver in a York gum-tree, the main branches of which 
overhung the road. The nest was placed some 30 ft. high above the road. 
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