Vo, ’i924 IV *] MacGILLIVRAY, SAP. Queensland. 
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over, we made a start along the road over open country rather 
bare of vegetation. Later we passed into scrub where the ground 
vegetation rapidly improved in quantity and quality, some areas 
being white with Helipterum floribundum, or yellow with H. 
polygalifolium, in thicker scrub. There was a mixture of Ptilotus 
alopecuroides, Podolepus rutidochlamys, Senecio Gregorii, in 
patches of golden yellow or silvery white, with its downy seeds. 
Lavender daisies (Br achy come ciliaris) (?) as large as a florin, 
covered much of the ground. Acacia cana was just bursting into 
bloom, and even the rugged and spiky Dead-finish had its asperi¬ 
ties softened by yellow balls of bloom. Eremophila Duttoni had 
its fine bunches of rich green foliage dotted over with crimson 
flowers. 
We stopped at Little Dingera for afternoon tea and went on 
again through the same flowering herbage carpeting the scrub, 
till we reached Yanco Station, where we found a party of drovers. 
We camped on a billabong about three miles beyond Yanco, and 
out from the Warri, and near to where Mr. W. McLennan and I 
had camped seven years before. Birds were numerous: Chestnut- 
crowned Babblers (Pomatostomus ruficeps), many Honeyeaters, 
including the Singing, Spiny-cheeked, Black, and the White- 
plumed, the Noisy Miner, and three Wood Swallows (Artamus 
superciliosus, A. personatus and A. melanops ), two Tree-creepers 
(Climacteris picumna and C. affinis ), two Ground Doves ( Geo- 
pelia placida and G. cuneata), and the Crested Pigeon (Ocyphaps 
lophotes). Budgerygahs were then arriving in small flocks, and 
Cockatoo-Parrots in larger lots. Blue-bonnets were common. 
Mulga and Gidgee and Acacia cana were looking well, many 
trees of the latter were coming into flower. The Wild Parsnip 
was tall and flowering everywhere, Helipterum polygalifolium, 
Podolepis rutidochlamys, and many others. A lavender daisy 
two inches in diameter covered the ground in many places. Dr. 
Chenery found a nest of the Black-faced Wood-Swallow ( Arta¬ 
mus melanops ), containing four eggs, in a Dead-finish. A Chest¬ 
nut-eared Finch had her nest and eggs in an Acacia cana four 
feet from the ground, and another of the same species had built 
hers in a hollow Mulga stump. A Singing Honeyeater’s nest, 
with two eggs, was in a common site—a bunch of Mistletoe 
(Loranthus quandang) on a Mulga. A pair of Black Honey- 
eaters (Myzomela nigra) were busy putting the finishing touches 
to their tiny nest on a horizontal fork of a dead Acacia cana. 
A Crested Bellbird’s nest, from which the bird flushed, was placed 
two feet from the ground in some dead branches at the foot of 
a Mulga. A male Myzomela was keeping to one locality, and 
making curious little flights up into the air, descending with out¬ 
spread, forward-sloping wings, and darting at intervals into a 
flowering Eremophila Duttoni to sip its nectar. Beautifully 
camouflaged on a dead grey horizontal fork of A. cana, the little 
grey female sat motionless on an equally grey nest. Her beak 
was pointing up and to one side like a small stick, and the 
