Contents - January, 1921 



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The Coloured Plate - - 113 



Annual Congress and Field Excursion or the R.A.O.U. - - 114 



President's Address. By A. F. Basset Hull, Box 704, G. P.O. , Sydney - 120 



Check -list Committee's Report 122 



Notes on the Supposed " Extinct" Birds of the South-West Corner of 

 Western Australia. By Edwin Ashby, F.L.S., M.B.O.U., Wit- 

 tunga, Blackwood, S.A. 123 



Birds Observed During the Visit of the R.A.O.U. to the South-Western 



District— Official Report. By S. A. White, C.M.B.O.U., C.F.A.O.U. 124 



Notes on Birds Observed in Western Australia, from Perth northwards to 

 Geraldton. By Edwin Ashby, F.L.S., M.B.O.U., Wittunga, Black- 

 wood, S.A. ----------- 130 



Upon the Murchison. By J. W. Mellor, sometime President R.A.O.U. 137 



Notes on Birds seen on the Porongorup Mountains (near Albany), 

 Geraldton, and Ooldea (Transcontinental Line). By A. .S. Le Souef, 

 Taronga Park, Sydney, State Secretary New South Wales - - 140 



Forgotten Feathers. By A. J. Campbell, C.M.B.O.U. - - - 144 



The Birds of the Swan River District, Western Australia. By W. B. 



Alexander, M-.-X., R.A.O.U. - - I49 



Notes on Dirk Hartog Island and Peron Peninsula, Shark Bay, Western 

 Australia. By F. Lawson Whitlock, R.A.O.U., Chiltern, Tudor, 

 Z7a Albany, W. A. 168 



Description of New Australian Eggs collected by F. Lawson Whitlock, 

 R.A.O.U., at Dirk Hartog Island, Western Australia. By H. L. 

 White, M.B.O.U., R.A.O.U. 186 



Notes on the Grass- Wren (Aiiiytoniis textilis). By H. L. White, 



M.B.O.U., R.A.O.U. 190 



A New Species of Ptilotis in Western Australia. By Edwin Ashby, 



F.L.S., M.B.O.U., Wittunga, Blackwood, S.A. - - - - 190 



STR-W Feathers.— Clutches of the Bustard in Western Austr.-ilia, 191 ; The Bronze- 

 Cuckoo in Western Australia, 192. 



Notes and Notices - - - - - - - - - 192 



