Vol. XXIV. 
1925 
WOLSTENHOLME —Birds of Camp-Out 249 
Neositta leucocephala. White-headed Tree-runner.—A small flock 
was seen in a larere eucalypt near the camp at Byfield. Ihe whole of 
the head and neck is white and the win K has a rufous band as in the 
Orange-winged Tree-runner ( N . chrysoptera) of the south. Ihe note 
was the same as that of the southern species. 
C’imacteris picumna. Brown Tree-creeper.—This bird was noted 
by Dr. Chenery in the timber on the bank of the Fitzroy Kiver. 
Climacteris leucophrca. White-throated Tree-creeper.—Fairly plen¬ 
tiful in the timber near the camp at Byfield. 
Dicaeum hirundinaceum. Mistletoe-bird.—The shrill ^in^ng o 
this little bird was heard at most of our stopping-places, but the bira 
was not often seen unless looked for. In a small tree by the fitzroy 
River at Rockhampton, Miss Geissmann found a nest containing 
^ Pardalotus ornatus. Red-tip Pardalote.—This bird’s note was 
heard and then the bird seen and identified not far from the camp 
Pardalotus melanecepha 1 us. Black-headed Pardalote. —- deemed 
plentiful about Rockhampton and also noted at Yeppoon and Bynela. 
They are generally known as “Chip-chip” or ‘ ‘Chuck-chuck from 
their characteristic call-note. 
Cyrtostonius frenatus. Australian Sunbird. — We were very 
pleased to see the Sunbird—an inhabitant of the tropics at Yeppoon. 
This place, not far within the tropic of Capricorn, must be near the 
southern limit of the bird’s range. A very gay and active little biro 
with bright yellow breast, shortish tail and long curved bill like that 
of the Spinebill Honey-eater. As great a flower-lover, too, as the 
Spinebill, with similar quick flight and hasty movement, as it nts 
from flower to flower or hovers beside an open blossom to sip tl } e 
nectar. In the sun the yellow plumage fairly shines and the male 
bird’s blue chest has a metallic lustre. The female has no blue colour, 
the yellow reaching the throat. Both birds are olive-yellow above. 
We saw a nearly finished nest. It was attached to a piece ot wire 
that hung on the verandah of a sea-side cottage—a dainty, long an 
slim, pensile nest with side entrance, grey in colour, composed ot thin, 
dry vegetable material, little bits of Melaleuca bark and cobweb, and 
decorated with the brown borings of a wood-borer. Lne lining, o 
white downy substances, was perhaps from the seed-pods ofplan‘ 4 • 
The female was bringing the lining and working it 111 while the m 
twittered approvingly close by. That appeared to be ms *l nly o ^ s 
tance. We could not photograph the bird at the nest that day as she 
ceased work about 10 a.m., just when the camera was in position, 
though she had been working fearlessly while Mr. Chaffer was fixing 
it up. We had to leave Yeppoon at 7 next morning, so a picture ot 
the nest only was taken. 
Zosterops lateralis. Grey-backed Silver-eye. A few were seen at 
^^osterops ^ 1 hiventris. Pale-breasted Silver-eye.—In the scnibs 1 at 
Bvfield and also at Yeppoon a species of Silver-eye, Ouite distinct 
from the common form (Z. lateralis) was seen on several occasions. 
These little birds were very quiet, only calling occasionally. r - 
Alexander had good views of them a few times and several other 
members also saw them fairly well, but generally they kept to the 
leafy trees. Their backs were uniformly green, throats bright yellow, 
and underparts greyish-white. Only Z . albiventris answers to this de¬ 
scription, and this species has only been found hitherto on islands off 
the Queensland coast. It is a pity that no specimens were obtained 
to settle the identity of these birds. 
Melithreptus albogularis. White-throated Honey : eater.—Small 
lots were seen in different places. Some were dipping into the cieek 
at Fairy Bower and many were seen in a flowering shrub at ixlen- 
more homestead on the Fitzroy River. They are similar in appear- 
