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and tail only just visible. They (the male bird chiefly) some¬ 
times while sitting on the nest, gave many pretty calls, some of 
which I had not heard before. 
In the next tree four or five steps away, the large pendulous 
nest of a pair of Noisy Friar-birds, usually called Eeatherheads 
in New South Wales ( Philemon corniculatus) was barely visible 
in the dense foliage of a Eucalypt. A parent bird was making 
frequent visits to the nest feeding young ones, and on one visit 
it was seen to carry a large brown moth. The next tree again, a 
few feet off, held another Regent Ifloneyeater’s nest. These five 
nests in four adjoining trees almost in a line could be watched 
at the same time, while low in a tree immediately behind could 
be heard at intervals the chirpings of the two young Jacky Win¬ 
ters ( Microeca fascinans ) as they were fed. They looked as big 
as their parents, and, though bulging over the side of their tiny 
nest, they managed somehow to escape falling out. Just here, 
too, Rufous Whistlers ( Pachycephala rufiventris ), Golden 
Whistlers (P. pectoralis), White-throated Warblers ( Gerygone 
olivacea) and Scarlet Honeyeaters ( Mysomela sanguineo.- 
lento) were singing their sweet songs. Further away in some 
swampy ground several pairs of Emu-Wrens ( Stipiturus mala- 
churus ) were flitting about and hiding amongst the long grass 
and tussocks. In the surrounding scrub and timber we found 
nests of the following species:—Black-faced Cuckoo-Shrike 
(Grciucalus nova-hollandice) ; White-winged Triller ( Lalaye 
tricolor ) ; Dusky and White-browed Wood. Swallows ( Artamus 
cyanopterus and A. superciliosus) ; Yellow-faced Honeyeater 
( Meliphaga chrysops), nest with young birds, five feet from 
ground; Brush Wattle-bird ( Anthochcera chrysoptera) , two 
nests, one in a Casuarina, one in a Banksia serrata ; Noisy Friar- 
bird ( Philemon corniculatus) , one nest, low for this bird, only 
about ten feet from the ground; and Variegated Wrens ( Malurus 
lamberti). While examining the nest of the Variegated Wren, 
which contained young ones, two adult male birds in fine plumage 
scurried about beside me with heads well down and long tails 
lowered and trailing on the ground. The birds looked like mice, 
but for their bright colours. The tail of this species has always 
appeared to me to be longer than the tail of the common Blue 
Wren (M. cyaneus). A comparison of length measurements 
would be interesting. Other Honeyeaters were numerous here, 
and also some Cuckoos, including the Square-tailed Cuckoo 
(Cacornantis pyrrhophanus) , whose loud, melancholy notes in 
descending scale were frequently heard. This Cuckoo was 
plentiful about the same time in the Sydney National Park. 
A Correction. — Anent “Australian Sea Birds,” mentioned 
in Emu, ante, p. 77, and a large Skua obtained at Queenscliff, 
Victoria. The name of the Skua should read Catharacta 
antarctica, not Megalestris maccormicki; it is separate from the 
larger dark species, C. lonnbergi, Mathews. 
