A pretty yellow Ipomoea formed dense festoons between the trees that fringed the waters.

The unripe seeds of Cochlospermum, when crushed, gave a fine yellow colour, shaded into an orange hue.
Large flocks of Peristera histrionica (the Harlequin pigeon) were lying on the patches of burnt grass on the plains, they feed on the brown seeds of a grass, which annoyed us very much by getting into our stockings, trowsers, and blankets.

The rose-breasted cockatoo, Mr.Gilbert's Platycercus of Darling Downs, and the Betshiregah (Melopsittacus undulatus, GOULD.) were very numerous, and it is probable that the plains round the gulf are their principal home, whence they migrate to the southward.

The white and black cockatoos were also very numerous.
John Murphy caught four perches, one of which weighed two pounds.

The purple ant of the east coast has disappeared, and a similar one with brick-coloured head and thorax, but by no means so voracious, has taken its place.
The flooded-gum and the bloodwood were in blossom: this usually takes place, at Moreton Bay, in November and December.