CHESTNUT-BREASTED MANNIKIN

227              CHESTNUT-BREASTED MANNIKIN             Lonchura castaneothorax

Australia      (227)

11.5-12.5 cm. Range from Kimberley to Sydney, along coast and ranging inland. Found in tall grass in Acacia woodlands, grassy flats, and spinifex crops.

CRIMSON FINCH

Photographed Townsville Common, August 2014. Male above, female with red head and brown body.

226            CRIMSON FINCH           Neochmia phaeton

Australia        (226)

12.5-14 cm. Found near water, cane grass, pandanus, paperbark, crops, roadsides and gardens. Range from Broome across Leichhardt River, a pocket on west coast of Cape York, and down e. coast to Mackay.

Darwin, January 2024

PALE YELLOW ROBIN

225            PALE-YELLOW ROBIN               Tregellasia capitol

Australia       (225)

Found in tropical, sub-tropical rainforests, tangles of lawyer-vine, and dense creekside vegetation. Range down e. coast of mainland from Cooktown to Townsville and in to Atherton, and from Frazer Island down to Newcastle and inland to Walcha. 13 cm.

MACLEAY'S HONEYEATER

224            MACLEAY'S HONEYEATER               Xanthotis macleayana

Australia             (224)

20 cm. Found in rainforest margins, wartercourses, paperbarks, blossoming eucalypt forests, woodlands, orchard, and gardens. Range from Cooktown to Townsville, lowland to highland rain forests.

VICTORIA'S RIFLEBIRD

223            VICTORIA'S RIFLEBIRD         Ptilotis victoriae

Australia           (223)

23-25 cm. Ranges across small area of rainforests in ne Queensland, from near Cooktown to near Townsville. Lives in rainforests in mountains and foothills, occasionally open woodlands.

SPOTTED CATBIRD

222           SPOTTED CATBIRD          Ailuroedus melanotis

Australia        (222)

Range in two spots in Northern Queensland, around Iron Range and from Cooktown to Townsville. 26- 30 cm. Found in mountain and lowland rain forests, gullies, paperbark, watercourse, gardens