Australian Museum Journal The birds of Coolabah and Brewarrina, north-western New South Wales
- Shortform:
- North, 1916, Rec. Aust. Mus. 11(6): 121–162
- Author(s):
- North, Alfred J.
- Year published:
- 1916
- Title:
- The birds of Coolabah and Brewarrina, north-western New South Wales
- Serial title:
- Records of the Australian Museum
- Volume:
- 11
- Issue:
- 6
- Start page:
- 121
- End page:
- 162
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1975.11.1916.913
- Language:
- English
- Plates:
- plates xxiv–xxviii
- Date published:
- 30 December 1916
- Cover date:
- 30 December 1916
- ISSN:
- 0067-1975
- CODEN:
- RAUMAJ
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Subjects:
- AVES; CHECKLIST; BIOGEOGRAPHY
- Digitized:
- 28 October 2008
- Available online:
- 16 December 2008
- Reference number:
- 913
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (113kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (6518kb PDF)
Abstract
The following notes were made at Coolabah, between the 5th and 14th of October, 1915, and those at Brewarrina between the 15th and 22nd of the same month.
Ascertaining last October from a twenty-five years' resident of North-westem New South Wales, that the weather conditions in that part of the State were apparently favourable for a collecting tour, I determined to spend my annual leave for 1915, as far as possible, equally at Coolabah and Brewarrina. Coolabah, on the main western line, four hundred and twenty-nine miles north-west of Sydney, is situate in the red soil country, having no natural watercourse, or permanent water, if we except a small gilguy or soak here and there, but which had entirely dried up at the time of my visit, the residents being dependent upon artificially formed tanks and dams for their storage of water.