I 68 Chenery, Birds observed Port Augusta to Gaider Ranges, y^^^ j^ 



list of these will be forwarded next year, perhaps. Season's too 

 dry for birds or collectors at present. We were too early for 

 eggs, but found one clutch of Ptilotis plumula and PJiaps 

 dialcoptcra. 



Aquila audax 

 Haliastur sphenurus 

 Hieracidea berigora 



„ occidentalis 



Podargus strigoides 

 Hirundo neoxena 

 Petrochelidon nigricans 

 Lagenoplastes ariel (nests only) 

 Cheramoeca leucosternum 

 Artamus sordidus 



„ melanops 

 Pardalotus ornatus 



Strepera (?) 



Gymnorhina tibicen 



„ leuconota 



Cracticus destructor 

 Grallina picata 

 Graucalus melanops 

 Lalage tricolor 

 Pachycephala rufiventris 



„ _ gilberti 



Collyriocincla harmonica 

 „ rufiventris 



Oreoica cristata 

 Sauloprocta motacilloides 

 Sisura inquieta 

 Microeca fascinans 



„ assimilis 

 Smicrornis brevirostris 

 Petroeca goodenovii 

 Melanodi-yas bicolor 

 Eopsaltria georgiana 

 Malurus assimilis 



„ callainus 



„ leucopterus 



Amytis (?) 



Acanthiza uropygialis 

 „ pyrrhopygia 



„ tenuirostris 



Geobasileus chrysorrhous 

 Ephthianura albifrons 

 „ aurifrons 



Xerophila leucopsis 

 Pyrrholaemus brunneus 



Calamanthus campestris 

 Anthus australis 

 Ta^niopygia castanotis 

 Cinclosoma castanonotum 

 Corcorax melanorhamphus 

 Corone australis 

 Corvus coronoides 

 Pomatorhinus superciliosus 

 Glycyphila albifrons 

 Ptilotis sonora 

 „ plumula 

 „ ornata 

 Acanthogenys rufigularis 

 Acanthocha^ra carunculata 

 Melithieptus brevirostris 

 Myzantha flavigula 

 Dicceum hirundinaceum 

 Zosterops coerulescens 

 Climacteris rufa 



„ superciliosa 



,, scandens 



Sittella pileata 

 Cacomantis pallidus 



„ flabelliformis 



Cacatua leadbeateri 

 Platycercus zonarius 

 Psephctus htematogaster 



,, multicolor 



Neophema elegans 

 Glossopsittacus porphyro- 



cephalus 

 Phaps chalcoptera 

 Turnix velox (dried eggs only) 

 Dromteus novte-hoUandi^e 

 Eupodotis australis 

 Burhinus grallarius 

 Zonifer tricolor 

 Eudromias australis 

 yEgialitis ruficapilla 

 Anas gibberifrons 

 Spatula rhynchotis 

 Chlamydochen jubata 

 Podiceps nestor. 



Birds in the Launceston District. 



By Frank M. Littler. 



This list is by no means a complete one, the species mentioned 

 being only those that have come under the immediate notice of 

 the writer. Further down the Tamar, and outside what has 



