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passing high overhead or halting to teed and rest before going 
further south. 
On leaving Wonnaminta our road took us over gravelly country 
crossing the eastern end of the isolated Koonenberry Range, 
where it had weathered away to a small ridge. The surrounding 
country bore a picturesque appearance. Bare white quart/, 
patches and a vivid green herbage alternated with areas made 
white with Blennodia lasiocarpa, or yellow with B. nasturtioides, 
and the composite Heliptcrum polygalifoliutn. We pulled up 
within two miles of the range as we intended to make an exam¬ 
ination of its bird and plant life. To reach it we traversed a 
gravelly plain with many shallow depressions—“crab-holes”—in 
which vegetation was particularly luxuriant, Helipterum strictum 
and Senecio brachyglossus forming the greater part of the crab- 
hole vegetation. We disturbed a White-fronted Chat (Bpthianura 
albifroits) from her nest low down in a perennial saltbush She 
fluttered away to lead us from the nest, which contained three 
hard-set eggs. Our next find was a nest of the Orange Chat 
(E. aunfrons), from which the female flushed. The nest held 
three of the Chat’s eggs and one egg of the Narrow-billed Bronze 
Cuckoo (Chalcites basalts). The Cuckoo deserved credit for 
finding a nest so well concealed in a big open plain. 
On Koonenberry itself we saw very few birds other than Red- 
capped Robins (Petroica goodenovii), Chestnut-eared Finches 
(Taemopygta castanotis) and a small flock of Black-capped Tree- 
runners (Neositta pileata). Dr. Chenery found a nest of the 
Wedgebill (Sphenostoma cristata) containing a pair of half- 
fledged young in a Dead-finish and a Singing Honeyeater’s nest 
unusually placed low down in a Kochia hush. A gum creek 
crossing through a gap at the end of the range was'frequented 
by Bare-eyed Cockatoos, Galahs, Ravens, Yellow-throated 
Miners, Greemes and Pardalotes. 
About two miles from Koonenberry and three from Mordei 
Station we had to spend three days to await a new magneto fo 
our trolly A pan- of Black-backed Magpies {Gymnorhin 
ttbicen), two pairs of \ellow-throated Miners (Mvanth 
flavigula) , and a Crested Pigeon ( Ocypltaps lopliotes) had nest 
containing young within a stone’s throw of our camp Dr Cher 
ery, while wandering down the creek, found Black' {Mysomel 
mgra) and Pied (. hchnotentha picata) Honeyeaters feeding o 
the nectar-bearing flowers of the tobacco bushes (Nicotian 
glauca ), in company with Spiny-cheeked (Acanthagenys rufoai 
laris), Singing ( Mehphagavirescens) and White-plumed Honei 
eaters (Greenies). 
About a mile and a half from our camp along the White Cliffs 
Road we discovered a flat with a good deal of Acacia cana grow¬ 
ing upon it. We explored this, and found a part where there 
was a thick under-brush of Breniophila maculata , all in flower, 
