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Anthochaera paradoxa. Yellow Wattle-Bird. In fair numbers. 
Nesting freely in the tea-tree scrubs. The nests I found were gener¬ 
ally placed near the top of a tall thin tea-tree. Two others were 
suspended in clump of hanging leaves about thirty feet up in a 
eucalpyt. 
I understand that the Honeyeaters in general are very fond of the 
sap of the Cider Tree. This oozes out and form long streaks, of con¬ 
gealed sap down the stems. 
Anthus australis. Australian Pipit. — Migratory. Nests in the 
tussock grass or under a log. 
Zonaeginthus bellus. Beautiful Firetai*. — Noted a few. 
Corvus coronoides. Australian Raven. — Too plentiful for a sheep- 
owner’s peace of mind. Four nests were seen by me. 
Strepera arguta. Hill Bell-Magpie.—Not so numerous as the Black 
Bell-Magpie. I saw two nests. Under one I found a dead fledgling 
which had over-balanced. It was partly feathered. Feathers were 
appearing along the sides of body; the wing and tail feathers were 
a few inches long. The other fledglings were in a near-by tree being 
fed by the parents. 26th November. 
Strepera fuliginosa. Black Bell-Magpie. — I have already written 
about these birds in a former issue of “The Emu” (Vol. XXII., Part 
1). Plentiful. The pair which frequent the house always build their 
nest in a position enabling them to watch the back door. Last thing 
at night the male bird always calls to the hen sitting on her nest. 
Her mate does not roost very near. It always seemed to me as if 
he called, “Are you all well, dear?” and her answer could be con¬ 
strued into, “Quite well. Where are you?” 
I saw the male of another pair carrying a partly grown rabbit for 
its young ones. The rabbit was too heavy for it to take up to the 
nest, so it found a spur on a log, on which it fixed the rabbit while 
it tugged at it. The picture I took of the birds so doing was an ex¬ 
cellent one of the logs, but the rabbit did not show plainly owing to 
the movements made by the tugs of the bird. 
Cracticus torquatus. Grey Butcher-Bird. — Fairly numerous. Saw 
several used nests in some Banksias along the Tunbridge road. 
Gymnorhina hypoleuca. White-backed Magpie.—Not plentiful. 
Nesting in tree near the lagoon. 
Some Jervis Bay Birds 
By H. WOLSTENHOLME, R.A.O.U., Wahroonga, Sydney. 
Birds were plentiful about Jervis Bay at the end of November, 
1923. At the village-port of Huskisson, on the bay, some euca- 
lypts were then flowering, and the blossoms were being eagerly 
explored by Musk Lorikeets (Glossopsitta concinna) and num¬ 
bers of Regent Honeyeaters (Zanthomiza phrygia). Among the 
blooms and leafage of the high trees, the beauty of the Honey¬ 
eaters could not be seen, and their only calls were the discordant 
notes characteristic of so many of the family as they fed and 
squabbled together. But, when the birds came down into the 
smaller trees, one could admire the bright contrasts of their black 
and light yellow plumage, and hear, sometimes, their bell-tone 
notes,' ; 
