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seen building high up on a dry branch of a Moreton Bay Ash. A 
pair of Kookaburras and a Tawny Frogmouth were disturbed 
from the trees on the side of a ridge. 
During the night, which was calm and beautifully moonlit, 
after an eclipse had passed over, we were serenaded by Boobook 
Owls. One we called up to the trees over our camp, where he 
remained calling or replying to our calls till we dozed off. There 
were several others calling along the channel of the river, and 
we found that individuals varied much in their notes. 
We made an early start next morning back towards Charleville. 
Regaining the road we soon pulled up at a paddock where there' 
was a fine lot of flowering Eremophila maculata amongst Bimble 
Box, Ironwood, Gidgee and Mulga. Honeyeaters feeding on 
the honey-bearing blooms of the Eremophila were numer¬ 
ous, and of the following species: — Friar-bird, Little 
Friar-bird, White-plumed Honeyeater, Blue-faced Honey- 
eater, Brown Honeyeater, and Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater. 
We also noted Brown Flycatchers, Restless Flycatchers, 
and Spotted Bower-birds. Resuming our journey we pulled 
up at the patch of Ironbark scrub and made a search of 
it, but found little of interest apart from the plants. We called 
upon a few people and replenished our supplies in Charleville, 
and took the westerly road towards Adavale. This road passed 
at first some open forest land with fine Moreton Bay Ash, Iron- 
wood, Gidgee, and Bimble-box trees, with Pines that looked as 
if they had been cultivated. We went on through alternat¬ 
ing Gidgee and Mulga scrub, with Bimble-box as the dominant 
Eucalypt, Yapunyah coming second. We passed over the gravelly 
elevation which served to separate the waters of the Paroo from 
those of the Warrego. It was evening before we reached the 
long Ambathala waterhole, which was kept full by a bore stream, 
and was covered with water weeds. Along the banks were 
many young red-gum trees, Coolibah (B. microtheca ), Acacia 
stenophylla, Eremophila biynoniccflora, and E. longifolia. Myo- 
porum deserti in flower formed a small scrub back from the 
waterhole amongst the Bimble-box, and, farther back still, was 
the edge of a thickly growing Gidgee scrub. 
On the following morning Dr. Chenery and I went into the 
Gidgee scrub which was thick, and without undergrowth or 
herbage, the ground being dry and covered with dead leaves. For 
some distance we neither saw nor heard any birds; then the Little 
Thornhill (Acanlhiza nana) was detected, and later the Chestnut¬ 
tailed Thornhill (Acanthiza uropygialis ), Black-backed Wrens 
(Malums melanotus) next attracted our attention, a male just 
completing his moult, and two females; and soon after we saw 
another party. We met with a pair of Sittellas (Neositta 
chrysoptera) and a family of White-browed Tree-Creepers, Grey 
Thrushes (Colluricincla harmonica ), and Rufous Whistlers 
