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Confessions of a Beachcomber

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Black-headed Diamond Bird PARDALOTUS MELANOCEPHALUS. Eastern Swallow HIRUNDO JAVANICA. Swallow HIRUNDO NEOXENA (FRONTALIS). White-rumped Wood-Swallow ARTAMUS LEUCOGASTER. Shining Starling CALORNIS METALLICA. Noisy Pitta PITTA STREPITANS. PICARIAN BIRDS Large-tailed Nightjar CAPRIMULGUS MACROURUS. Roller or Dollar-Bird EURYSTOMUS AUSTRALIS. Bee-eater MEROPS ORNATUS. Blue Kingfisher ALCYONE AZUREA. Little Kingfisher ALCYONE PUSILLA. Leach Kingfisher DACELO LEACHII. Sacred Kingfisher HALCYON SANCTUS. Mangrove Kingfisher HALYON SORDIDUS. Bronze Cuckoo CHALCOCOCCYX PLAGOSUS. Koel EUDYNAMIS CYANOCEPHALA. Channel-bill SCYTHROPS NOVAE HOLLANDIE. Coucal CENTROPUS PHASIANUS. PARROTS Red-collared Lorikeet TRICHOGLOSSUS RUBRITORQUIS. Glossy Cockatoo CALYPTORHYNCHUS VIRIDIS (LEACHIT). White Cockatoo CACATUA GALERITA. Red-winged Lory PTISTES ERYTHROPTERUS. PIGEONS AND DOVES Rose-crowned Fruit Pigeon PTILOPUS EWINGI. Purple-crowned Fruit Pigeon PTILOPUS SUPERBUS. Purple-breasted Fruit Pigeon MEGALOPREPIA MAGNIFICA. Allied Fruit Pigeon MEGALOPREPIA ASSIMILIS. Nutmeg Pigeon MYRISTICIVORA SPILORRHOA. White-headed Fruit Pigeon COLUMBA LEUCOMELA. Pheasant-tailed Pigeon MACROPYGIA PHASIANELLA. Barred-shouldered Dove GEOPELIA HUMERALIS. Ground Dove GEOPELIA TRANQUILA. Little Dove GEOPELIA CUNEATA. Little Green Pigeon CHALCOPHAPS CHRYSOCHLORA. GAME BIRDS Brown Quail SYNAECUS AUSTRALIS. Scrub Fowl MEGAPODIUS DUPERREYI (TUMULUS). Bald Coot PORPHYRIO MELANONOTUS. Little Quail TURNIX VELOX. RAIL Pectoral Rail HYPOTAENIDIA PHILIPPINENSIS. CRANE Crane or Native Companion ANTIGONE AUSTRALASIANA. PLOVERS, ETC. Stone Plover BURHINUS (OEDICNEMUS) GRALLARIUS. Long-billed Stone Plover ORTHORHAMPHUS (ESACUS) MAGNIROSTRIS. Turnstone ARENARIA (STREPSILAS) INTERPRES. Pied Oyster-catcher HAEMATOPUS LONGIROSTRIS. Black Oyster-catcher HAEMATOPUS UNICOLOR. Masked Plover LOBIVANELLUS MILES. Red-capped Dottrel AEGIALITIS RUFICAPILLA. Black-fronted Dottrel AEGIALITIS (MELANOPS) NIGRIFRONS. Red-necked Avocet RECURVIROSTRA NOVAE-HOLLANDIAE. Curlew NUMENIUS CYANOPUS. Whimbrel NUMENIUS VARIEGATUS. Barred-rumped Godwit LIMOSA NOVAE-SEALANDIAE Common Sandpiper TRINGOIDES HYPOLEUCUS. Greenshank GLOTTIS NEBULARIUS (GLOTTOIDES). Snipe GALLINAGO AUSTRALIS. SEA BIRDS Crested Tern STERNA BERGII. Brown-winged Tern STERNA ANAESTHETA. Sooty Tern STERNA FULIGINOSA. White-shafted Ternlet STERNA SINENSIS. Black-naped Tern STERNA MELANAUCHEN. Noddy ANOUS STOLIDUS. White-capped Noddy MICRANOUS LEUCOCAPILLUS. IBISES White Ibis IBIS MOLUCCA. Straw-necked Ibis CARPHIBIS SPINICOLLIS. HERONS Plumed Egret MESOPHOYX PLUMIFERA. White Egret HERODIAS TIMORIENSIS. White-fronted Heron NOTOPHOYX NOVAE-HOLLANDIAE. Reef Heron DEMIEGRETTA SACRA. Little Mangrove Bittem BUTORIDES STAGNATILIS. Yellow-necked Mangrove Bittem DUPETOR GOULDI. POUCHERS Little Cormorant PHALACROCORAX MELANOLEUCUS. Darter PTOLUS NOVAE-HOLLANDIAE. Masked Gannet SULA CYANOPS. Red-legged Gannet SULA PISCATOR. Brown Gannet (Booby) SULA SULA (FIBER). Lesser Frigate Bird FREGATA ARIEL Pelican PELICANUS CONSPICILLATUS. DIVER Black-throated Grebe PODICIPES NOVAE-HOLLANDIAE. DUCKS Black Duck ANAS SUPERCILIOSA. Grey Teal NETTION (ANAS) GIBBERIFRONS. Why have we no residential parrot, though cockatoos are plentiful; no scrub turkey though the megapode scampers in all directions in the jungle; no common black crow, nor butcher bird, though other shrikes (the magpie for instance) come and go; no wren, no finch, no lark? Scrub turkeys (TALLEGALLA LATHAMI), mound builders like the megapode, are plentiful all along the coast, at certain seasons visiting the scrub which margins the opposite beach, but they are not found on these islands. The blue mountain parrot (red-collared lorikeet), the red-winged lory, the black cockatoo (Leach's), and other well-known species, fleet and venturesome, to whom two miles and a half of "salt, estranging sea" cannot be any check, certainly do not use the island for nesting as birds of "innocent and quiet minds" might. Gauze-winged butterflies flit across the channel, occasionally in great numbers. What law restrains virile birds from the venture? The absence among the residents of swimming birds, save the beach frequenters, is due to the lack of open fresh water, though there are indications of the past existence of at least one swamp, and also that it was drained naturally by the fretting away of a sand ridge by the sea. How is it, that though we have echidna in three different colours--black, grey and straw--there is no typical marsupial, large or small, no iguana (rather, monitor lizard), though a fair variety of other reptiles, from white, house-haunting geckoes to carpet snakes? Though the CYCAS MEDIA is plentiful on the seaward slopes of the adjacent mainland, no trace of that interesting old-world plant has been discovered here. and but one casual representative has been found of the graceful fan palm (LICUALA MUELLERI), another relic of the far beginning of Australia. No doubt the seed whence the single fan palm sprung would be brought hither by a nutmeg pigeon; but there is no bird-carrier for the CYCAD, and the set of the current is opposed to its transport by the sea. In birds and in mammals and in plants, wide-spread Australian groups are

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