THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
that species in being destitute of the lanceolate marks on the throat, and from 
all others in the dark colouring of the back.” 
Berney has written from the Richmond District, North Queensland: 
“ The loud 4 Spink, spink ’ of this Climacteris is to be heard fairly frequently 
among the river timber. To make sure of the species I shot a specimen for 
identification. Later in the same day (13th January, 1904) I watched a pair 
feeding a nestful of young in a hollow spout, five and thirty feet from the 
ground in a river gum. This species has a most peculiar cheesy or mouse¬ 
trap smell; it is most curious, and strikes one as soon as the bird is handled.” 
When Campbell and Barnard recorded this species from the Cardwell 
district, they wrote : “ Broadbent states that a few specimens of the Brown 
Treecreeper ( C. scandens) were seen by him between Gowrie Creek and Cold- 
water Station, on the Herbert River, in the open forest. This would be on 
the tableland. The species we obtained on the Kirrama tableland was C. 
melanota, which has similar cries and habits to those of C. scandens. Ramsay 
also refers to the bird as C. scandens .” 
As the Broadbent collection reported upon as above quoted was stated to 
be in the Queensland Museum, for purposes of reference it is advisable to 
examine the birds and record the facts. 
Macgillivray has written : 44 Were in scattered pairs in the forest on the 
Archer River.” 
No subspecies were known until I named 
Whitlocki melanota barroni. 
44 Differs from W. m. melanota in its larger size, wing 96 mm.; birds from 
Normanton have a wing measurement of 85‘90 mm. The female differs from 
females from Normanton in being greyer on the under-surface. The type 
of Climacteris melanota Gould, 1846, was collected on the Nassau River about 
25 miles from its mouth in the Gulf of Carpentaria, in open forest country. 
This new subspecies is from the thick jungle near Cairns, Queensland.” 
Very recently H. L. White has described the eggs collected by W. 
McLennan at Coen, Cape York Peninsula, about 200 miles N.W. of Cooktown. 
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