CIN'CLOSOMA. 



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The immature male has the head and liind-neck brown, the lesser and median wing-coverts 

 black with pale buffy-white tips, the greater coverts cinnamon-rufous, the tips of the outermost 

 series white washed with cinnamon-rufous; lores whitish with narrow dusky tips; the glossy black 

 patch on the centre of the throat is smaller and mottled with white; fore-neck pale brown with 

 only a wash of cinnamon in the centre; the black band on the upper breast is smaller and 

 duller in colour, and the sides of the breast destitute of the line of black streaks on the feathers. 



t " Depot Glen," 



: where Sturt's party 



stayed for nearly 

 five months, and 

 observed so many 

 of the birds referred 

 to in his work, is the 

 only place where 

 there is permanent 

 water in an other- 

 wise arid region. 

 It is situated on 

 Evelyn Creek, about 

 L'i.Ljht miles to the 

 left of the main 

 load midway be- 

 tween Milparinka 

 and Tibboburra, in 

 North-western New 

 South Wales, and 

 about eight hun- 

 dred and sixty miles 

 north-west of Syd- 

 ney. For an oppor- 

 tunity of being able 

 to give a represent- 

 ation of this in- 

 teresting spot I am 

 indebted tothe Rev. 

 [. Milne Curran, 

 F.G.S., who took 

 several photographs 

 during a visit there. 



Sturt's Expedi- 

 tion, which left 

 Adelaide in 1844, 



traversed Western New South Wales, entered South Australia again, and journeyed for a short 

 distance in a northerly direction in Western Queensland. The intrepid explorer then retraced 

 his steps to Depot Glen, without ever penetrating to the centre of the continent— - the goal 

 he had set out to attain. This was, however, accomplished later on by a member of the same 

 expedition, Mr. John McDouall Stuart, who, on the 22nd April, i860, was the first explorer to 

 reach the centre of the continent, and in a subsequent expedition to cross it. Among the 

 historic relics in the Australian Museum are three pieces of planks, remains of the boat left 



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STURTS DEPOT GLEN. 



