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MacGILUVRAY, S.ir. Queensland. Put oT 
aborigines. In the afternoon we examined a wide Salicornia 
flat below the station, and between it and the river. A 
few families of White-winged Wrens (.Malums cyanotus) 
and several Black Honeyeaters were seen here, and a nest of 
each species found. That of the Honey eater was placed in the 
top of a Salic ornia bush about two feet from the ground. It con¬ 
tained two young birds newly hatched. Their skin was black, 
eyes not open, bill, feet and legs blackish, gape dull yellow. A 
small tract of fluffy greyish down was on either side of the head 
and across the nape. Down was also on two tracts down the 
back, and on the femoral and humeral regions, and forming two 
lateral pectoro-abdominal tracts. The nest was open and cup¬ 
shaped. It was composed of fine dry twigs and a little cobweb, 
and was lined scantily with dry grass and a piece of hessian 
purloined from some rotting bag. The external diameter was 
2£ in., and internal 1£ in.; internal depth 1 in., external 2\ in. 
The Wren’s nest in a similar bush, one foot from the ground, 
faced north, and had a hood over the lateral entrance. From top 
to bottom it measured 6 in., and 4 in. from front to back; entrance 
was 1J in. x 1 in. It was composed of fine dry grass and 
spiders’ egg-sacs. 
Very few water birds were on the waterhole. We followed 
it down till blocked by a Lignum swamp. A Wedgebill was 
heard whistling, and its nest was found about 10 feet up in a 
bunch of Mistletoe growing on Acacia stenophylla. The nest 
contained two young birds. 
We made a late start on the 6th September and followed the 
Wilson down on the same bank as far as Nocundra — a small 
township of about half-a-dozen houses. We crossed the river 
below the township, followed the road out for about two miles 
over country subject to inundation, picked up a cart-track in 
an endeavour to avoid a long stretch of road made very rough 
by herds of cattle having passed over it when it was wet. We 
followed on over stony ground, on which Mulga, Gidgee and 
Dead-finish were the principal scrub trees, with an occasional 
bloodwood and an under-brush of Cassia phyllodinea, Cassia 
Sturti, and C. desolata. An Australian Dotterel flushed from the 
road, and we searched long for the well-concealed eggs, before 
we found them on the wheel track; a depression 1 inch in depth 
had been made by the bird to contain the three eggs. Bird, 
eggs and soil were of much the same sandy colour, and the 
scattered stones and gravel helped in the concealment. We 
retraced our way, picked up the main road, and crossed a 
creek-bed which was a garden of flowering herbage. Here the 
car went wrong, necessitating a long delay. We made camp on 
a waterhole half a mile away. Only a few Coolibahs and 
Acacias bordered the waterhole, and firewood was scarce. A pair 
of Allied Wrens had their nest and young in a low bush of 
Bremophila polyclada. Magpies had large young in a tree near 
our camp, and numbers of Brolgas were on the plain. In the 
