THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
received specimens said to have been shot at Toowoomba, some distance 
inland from Brisbane.” 
These latter would be the typical bird which was procured at Keppel 
Bay. 
Mr. J. P. Rogers’ observations on the Fitzroy River, North-west Australian 
{EmUy Vol. II., j). 50, 1902), are : Dacelo cervina. During the heat of the day 
(7/4/00) this bird usually sits on a well-shaded branch, and sits so close that 
unless approached almost to the branch it will not move. It generally 
perches well hidden in leafy boughs.” 
Whitlock, revie’wing the birds on the PUbarra Goldfield {Emu, Vol. VUI., 
p. 188, 1909), reported : “ In scattered pairs along both the Coongan and de Grey. 
The extraordinar 3 ^ guttural notes heard both at early dawn and after sunset. 
I was only able to locate one nest, and, as I was leaving the upper Coongan, 
1 chopped a hole into the limb, but, to my regret, was too early for eggs. I 
am inclined to think the female is a close sitter and refuses to be scared from her 
by knocking with a tomahawk on the butt of the tree. The only way 
to find the nest is to watch a pair, and this entails much patience, as they are 
apt to sit for a long time quite motionless on some dead limb.” 
Mr. J. P. Rogers forwarded me some notes on nestlings as follows : 
“ Oct. 15, 1908. — ^Found nest with three young which were blind and naked; 
skin was a healthy flesh colour. Oct. 20. — Young had primaries and secondaries 
just starting to grow. Feather tracts show leaden-blue colour under the 
skin. Still perfectly blind. Oct. 24. — Primaries and secondaries well out : 
feather tracts still under skin : eyes of two half open, third still totally blind. 
Oct. 27. — All the feathers showing : primaries and secondaries three quarters 
of an inch long : other feathers through the skin : no dovoi yet. Eyes partly 
open and looked very bleary. Oct. 31. — ^Nest-hollow beginning to smell 
very badly. Young had the feathers one inch long, but they were stiU in 
their sheaths. The birds look rather ridiculous when handled, as they stand 
their quills out like a porcupine. Feathers of the flank showed buff through 
their .sheaths. Eyes are now open. Nov. 2. — One secondary on each side 
has burst its sheath at the point. Nov. 10. — ^Two of the young had their 
feathers half out of their sheaths; No. 3 was further advanced.” 
Mr. Tom Carter’s notes read : “ The Fawri-breaSted Kingfisher is common 
on the Gascoyne River down to the coast, and far inland up its main ti’ibutarj^ 
the Lyons River. For many years the^^ w'ere never observed by me on the 
Minilya River (about eighty miles north of the Gascoyne), but were heard 
and seen there on October 4, 1902, and during my visits to that river in 1911 
and 1913 they seemed fairly common. Their previous absence from that 
localitj^ was probably due to the fact that from the early settlement on that 
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