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noticed the first arrival on March the 29tli at the Acheritou 

 reservoir, and from that date until he left the island in June 

 procured a number of specimens and plenty of nests and 

 eggs in the hills. He took a much incubated clutch of seven 

 eggs near Kambos on May the 10th, and found young in a nest 

 on the Troodos summit on June the 1st, where the bird was 

 very abundant. But he also took fresh eggs as late as the 

 12th of May, and on the 9th found a nest with only one e^^. 

 Some of the eggs are very handsome, and the nests are in 

 several instances almost entirely composed of rough cotton 

 or woollen refuse or discarded cord and thread. On the 

 31st of May Horsbrugh shot a Jay on Troiklos which, whilst 

 struggling on the ground, was attacked and mobbed viciously 

 by four Masked Shrikes. 



[To be continued.] 



XXX. — Supplementary List of the Birds of the Alexandra 

 District, Northern Territory, S. Australia. By Collingwood 

 Ingram, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 



In the ' Ibis ' 1907 (p. 387) I described a collection of 

 birds from Alexandra, a cattle-station in the Northern 

 Territory of South Australia. They were all obtained 

 by Mr. William Stalker, who consigned the specimens to 

 England as soon as they were ready for transit. Of three 

 cases so despatched, two arrived safely within the year : 

 the third, and last, only reached its destination a few 

 months ago ! The birds contained in the last case have been 

 carefully examined and named by Mr. Gregory ]\Iathews, 

 to whom I am indebted for the following detailed list, which 

 I now publish as a supplement to my first paper. Nineteen 

 species are thereby added to the birds of Alexandra, making 

 a total of a hundred and ten. This may be considered a 

 fairly complete list of the birds occurring in the district 

 under notice, as Mr. Stalker was occupied for nearly two 

 years in making the collection. The nomenclature of the list 

 follows that of Mathews' recently published " Handlist " 

 ('Emu,' vol. vii. Suppl.). 



