l86 Mellok, Birds Identifiedin N.S.W., yth Session A. O.U . [,,f April 



*Stubble Quail 

 *S lone- Plover 

 *Black Oyster-catcher 



Spur-winged Plover 



Black-breasted Plover 

 *Golden Plover 

 *Hooded Dottrel 

 *Black-fronted Dottrel 

 *Red-capped Dottrel 

 *Wliite-headed Stilt 

 *Sharp-tailed Stint 

 *Sea Curlew 

 *Whimbrel 

 *Straw-necked Ibis 

 *White-necked Heron 

 *Wlute-fronted Heron 

 *Night-Heron 

 *Bittem 



* Yellow-necked Mangrove-Bittern 

 ♦Little Mangrove-Bittern 

 *Land Rail 



Black Duck 

 *Grey Teal 

 *Musk-Duck 

 ♦Pacific Gull 

 ♦Silver Gull 

 ♦Caspian Tern 

 ♦Crested Tern 

 ♦Little Tern 

 ♦Mutton-Bird 

 ♦Pelican 



♦Black Cormorant 

 Pied Cormorant 

 ♦Little Cormorant 

 ♦Little Black Cormorant 

 ♦Darter 



Cotuvnix pcctoralis 

 Burhinus grallarius 

 Hcematopus unicolor 

 Lobivanelliis lobatus 

 Zonifer tricolor 

 Charadritts dominicus 

 Mgialitis cucullata 



,, melanops 



,, ruficapilla 

 Himantopus leucocephalus 

 Heteropygia acuminata 

 Numenius cyanopus 



,, variegatus 



Carphibis spinicollis 

 Notophoyx pacifica 



,, novcs-hollandics 



Nycticorax caledonicus 

 Botaurns poiciloptilus 

 Dupetor gouldi 

 Butorides stagnaiilis 

 Hypotcenidia philippinensis 

 Anas superciliosa 

 Neition gibberifrons 

 Biziura lobata 

 Gabianus pacificus 

 Lams novcB-hollandice 

 Hydroprogne caspia 

 Sterna bergii 

 ,, nereis 

 Puffimis tenuirostris 

 Pelecanus conspicillatus 

 Phalacrocorax carbo 



,, hypolencus 



,, melanolencus 



,, sulcirostris 



Plotus novce-hollandice . 



[In a " flying " visit, Mr. Mellor has done good work in identifying 

 so many New South Wales birds. If his identification be complete, 

 the Varied Honey-ea:ter {Ptilotis versicolor) is " new " for that State ; 

 but probably the " Little Tern " he observed at the Tweed River is 

 Sterna sinensis (White-shafted Ternlet) and not S. nereis. — Eds.] 



Stray Feathers. 



Nightjar with Ticks. — This morning I picked up an 

 Owlet Nightjar {ALgotJieles tiovce-liolimidice) that had evidently 

 been killed by a cat, and was surprised to notice a lot of ticks 

 under the chin and round the eyes and ears. At first sight I 

 thought they were the cattle tick {Exodes bovis), but on ex- 

 amination they proved to have brown legs instead of white as 

 in the cattle tick. There were twelve well-filled ticks, the 

 largest being fully |-inch long. — Chas. A. BARNARD. Coomoo- 

 boolaroo, Duaringa, 16/2/08. 



