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Many vernacular names were discussed and popular favf)urites 

 like Jacky Winter for the Australian I>r(nvn Flycatcher, Chow- 

 chilla for the so-called Logrunners and Sittella for the Nuthatches 

 or Tree-runners were accepted. The recommendation was made 

 to the committee that wherever possible vernacular names apply- 

 ing to more than one species should all be (|ualified. Thus .Irta- 

 miis cyanoptcriis would be known as the Dusky Wood Swal- 

 low, not the Wood Swallow, and Plafycerciis cximius as the 

 Common Rosella. A resolution was ordered to be entered in 

 the minutes expressing satisfaction with the work of the com- 

 mittee, with special mention of the work of Mr. A. J. Campbell 

 and Dr. J. A. Leach. 



Captain White exhibited a series of skins of the Adelaide 

 Rosella, showing that it was a form of Platycercus elegans, the 

 Crimson Rosella, and not of P. flaveolus, the Yellow Rosella. Tt 

 had green young, like those of P. elegans, while there was no 

 green stage in the life history of P. flaveolus. 



It was decided that the Congress of 1923 should l)e lield at 

 Hobart. 



Votes of thanks to all who had contributed to the success of 

 the congress, and the retiring office-bearers were carried. 



One incident indicating the good public feeling developed in 

 the community and the good work done by the Education De- 

 partment in its schools, under the direction of Mr. A. G. Edquist, 

 nature study organiser, in the formation of Bird Clubs, must be 

 recorded. At Booleroo Centre, a few miles from Mt. Remark- 

 able, the lively strains of "Australia Will be There" reached the 

 delegates as the train drew up. The school Bird Club, led 

 by the school band, with big drum, side drum, fifes and tin 

 whistles, presented an address of welcome to the ornithologists. 

 The President, Dr. J. A. Leach, Capt. White (S.A.), C. A. Bar- 

 nard (Q.), and Neville Cayley (N.S.W.), acknowledged the 

 address, and wished the Bird Club and the head teacher (Mr. 

 D. D. vSmith) success. The band gave several selections in a 

 creditable manner. 



HONORARY SECRETARY'S REPORT FOR YEAR 

 ENDED 30/6/1922. 



2 Temple Court, 



Melbourne, 14/10/22. 

 Ladies and Gentlemen, — 



I am pleased to report that the afifairs of the Union have 

 <ontinued to progress during the last year. 



