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little leisure to examine the wallabies and other animals 

 in his outside pens ; but my time was limited, and I was 

 forced to hurry off to catch the last convenient train to 

 Adelaide. The next day (August 12) was fixed for our 

 departure for Melbourne, the travelling, as usual, b»ing 

 chiefly by night. We had uot even time to visit the 

 Adelaide Botanical Gardens, but managed to reach tl;e 

 nearest part of the river, where many Black Swans were 

 sitting on their nests on the small islets tliat appealed 

 above the waters, and gaudy Purple Gallinules (Porphyrio 

 melanonotus) were flushed here aud from the sedge-co\erts 

 on the banks. There were other common water-birds in 

 some numbers, and we saw for the first time in plenty the 

 Welcome Swallow (Chelidon neoxend). 



At Melbourne work was again the order of the day. My 

 wiFe and I were received with the utmost hospitality by 

 ]Mr. and Mrs. Cain of South Yarra, their daughter, and two 

 sons, an Oxford and a Cambridge graduate respectively. 

 Dr. Leach, Editor of the 'Enm,^ Mr. Dudley Le Souef of 

 the Zoological Gardens, and last, but not least, our old ally 

 and Colonial Member, Mr. A. J. Campbell, were also busy 

 on our behalf; while I look with pride upon the fact that 

 I was elected an Honorary Member of the local Field Club, 

 at a meeting which I and my friend, Mr. George Herdman, 

 were specially invited to attend. As I returned to Mel- 

 bourne later, I must here content myself with a brief 

 reference to an afternoon excursion kindly arranged by 

 Mr. A. J. Campbell to a lovely valley which is a regular 

 place of pilgrimage at this season for gatherers of Acacia, 

 a' trip to Black Rock with Mr. Robert Cain, one to the 

 Golf Links with his brother, and an exciting motor-drive 

 over impossible hill-tracks past Fern-tree Gulley in the 

 direction of Warburton. With Mr. Campbell's party, 

 which included the General Secretary of the Associatio)i, 

 we saw several of our old favourites, such as the Yellow 

 Robin ; one member reported a Ground-Thrush [Turdus Imm- 

 httns) ; and all of us watched with interest a pair of Brown 

 Tit-\V arblers {^Acanthiza jjusilla) busily building their nest 



