White, On Yorke Peninsula. 



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While-fronted Chat . . 



Whiteface . . 



Ground-Lark 



Lesser Bush -Lark 



Spotted-sided Mncli 



Crow 



White-browed Babbler 



Tawny-crowned Honey-eater 



Singing Honey-cater 



Wattle-cheeked Honey-eater 



Yellow-plumed Honey-eater 



Spiny-cheeked Honey-eater 



Brown-headed Honey-eater 



White-eve . . 



Black-capped Tree-runner 



Many-coloured Parrakeet 



Stone-Plover 



Pied Oyster-catcher 



Black Oyster-catcher 



Spur-winged Plover . . 



Hooded Dottrel 



Red-capped Dottrel 



Double-banded Dottrel 



Curlew Sandpiper 



Little Sandpiper 



Greenshank 



Turnstone . . 



White-fronted Heron 



Pacific Gull 



Silver Gull 



Richardson Skua 



Caspian Tern 



Crested Tern 



Short-tailed Petrel . . 



White-breasted Cormorant 



Little Cormorant 



Gannel 



Ephthianura albifrons 

 Xerophila leucopsis 

 Anthus australis 

 Mirafra secunda 

 Staganopleitra guttata 

 Corvus coronoides 

 Pomatorhinus superciliosus 

 Glycyphila melanops 

 Ptilotis sonora 

 Ptilotis cratitia 

 Ptilotis ornata 

 Acanthogenys rufigularis 

 ^ Tt'lilh ii'p/its brevirostris 

 Z<>s/rr,i/\s cccrulescens 

 Siltella pileata 

 Psephotus multicolor 

 Burhinus grallarius 

 Hd'inatopus longirostris 

 IIaii/(ii(i/uis fuliginostis 

 Lol)iVii))clliis lobatus 

 JEgialitis cucullata 

 ^gialitis ruficapilla 

 Ochthodromus bicinctus 

 Ancylochilus subarquatus 

 Pisobia ruficollis 

 Glottis nebularius 

 Arenaria interpres 

 Notophoyx novce-hollandice 

 Gabianus pacificus 

 Larus novcB-hollandice 

 Stercorarius crepidatus 

 Hydroprogne caspia 

 Sterna bergi 

 Puffinus tenuirostris 

 Phalacrocorax gouldi 

 Phalacrocorax nielanoleucus 

 Sula serrator 



Mallee-Fowl on Kangaroo Island. 



By J. \V. Mellor, R.A.O.U., Adelaide. 



The work of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union is 

 bearing fruit in more ways than one. An example is the intro- 

 duction of the Mallee-Fowl {Leipoa ocellata) to Kangaroo Island, 

 South Australia, where these peculiar mound-raising birds of the 

 mainland will be safe from the fox, which is rapidly exterminating 

 this and many other ground-living and breeding species. 



The question of protecting the Mallee-Fowl was brought before 

 the Union at its sixth congress, at Hobart, in iC)o6, by the writer, 

 and the members present were of unanimous opinion that some- 

 thing should be done. The writer advocated the establishment 

 of the bird on Kangaroo Island, and a recommendation to this 



