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found only four nests containing eggs—one of the Wood Swallow 
(Artamus superciliosus ) in a cleft on a tree trunk; one of the 
Peaceful Dove on a bracket of bark on a dead Eucalypt; one of 
Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater pendent in an Acacia stenophylla, and 
one of Jacky Winter ( Microeca fascinans) on a dead horizontal 
fork of a Eucalyptus microtheca. 
There was much coarse Kangaroo Grass in the channel, which 
sheltered Kangaroos and Wallabies. There were very few 
Ducks on the waterholes, but from several we flushed Pelicans 
and Spoonbills. 
On the road again we crossed the Bulloo near Comongin 
Station, and made our way along a stony hillside, which was 
gay with flowers. The Wedgebill, which we had not seen since 
reaching the Paroo, was now heard singing in the scrub. We called 
a halt soon after, to adjust a spring that had slipped, and during 
the wait beside a well-grassed stretch of the channel Wedgebills 
were seen, and a pair of Red-backed Parrots; this must be their 
far westerly limit, as we saw no more, and they did not occur 
beyond the Grey Range. Comongin Station was passed late in 
the afternoon, Suite a town of buildings near a very fine sheet 
of water on which were numbers of waterfowl. Our road ran 
on round the end of the lake, and we went on till nearly dusk, 
when we pulled in to the channel to camp. The trees were 
Yapunyah and Coolibah, with Queamurra and “Lignum.” The 
Grey-crowned and White-browed Babblers were noted in the 
trees, the latter for the first time since leaving Hungerford. 
Yellow-throated Miners, the ubiquitous Greenie, White-browed 
and Black-faced Wood-Swallows were to be seen. 
Early next morning we heard Brolgas (Native Companions) 
calling near our camp, and we saw four Black Cockatoos ( Calyp- 
torhynchus banksi) in a Leopard tree out from the river. We 
started again and soon crossed the railway line and ran into 
Quilpie, the western terminus of the Brisbane-Charleville railway. 
Twenty-seven Black Cockatoos flew over the town whilst we were 
in it. We stayed only a short period, to make a few purchases, 
and went on again, but broke a spring when two miles out. The 
loading was taken off the car and the empty car run back to the 
local smithy for repair. Dr. C-henery and I started out to explore 
our surroundings, mostly Gidgee scrub. In one of these trees 
near our camp a Yellow-throated Miner had her nest containing 
eggs, and not far from it a Crested Pigeon was sitting closely 
on her nest. We followed a watercourse and soon came across 
a party of Apostle-birds fussing about a nest high up on a nearly 
vertical limb of a Yapunyah ; they were taking it in turn to sit in 
the nest, and were doing much chattering. About a hundred 
yards down the creek we found another lot with a nest low 
down in a Gidgee. This was being sat upon in turn by several 
members of the party. This nest was found to contain six eggs, 
four of which were of a different type from the other two, and 
were probably laid by another bird. The nest was only 15 feet 
