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LOBIVANELLUS LOBATUS (Spur-winged Plover). — Occasionally seen. 



.•Egialitis RUFICAPILLA (Red-capped Dottrel). 



.'Egialitis CUCULLATA (Hooded Dottrel). — Plentiful on the sandy beaches 

 and also found around some of the lagoons. Newly-hatched young 

 were seen during the second week in November. With striped downy 

 coats, when planting alongside some bit of seaweed they are easily passed 

 by. 



NuMENIUS CYANOPUS (Curlew). 



Doubtless several other wading birds could be recorded during an 

 extended residence on King Island. 



Hydroprogne CASPIA (Caspian Tern).— In 1887 the Field Naturalists' 

 expedition, while on the east coast, shot a Caspian Tern, and also took its 

 eggs. To this day the other bird lives alone at the same spot where it 

 was bereaved of mate and progeny at one fell stroke. Probably they were 

 the only birds of this species about the island. 



Sterna bergii (Crested Tern). 



Larus nov^-hollandl« (Silver Gull). — A colony of these birds' nests 

 yearly on a rock standing in Currie Harbour, on the west coast. They 

 begin laying in November. Some years, when robbed by the local residents 

 of their fresh eggs, they depart en masse to a reserve rookery further north. 



GabianuS PACIFICUS (Pacific Gull). — This terror of all smaller sea birds, 

 and shore birds too, is seen in all its stages from the mottled brown and 

 grey of the immature plumage to the brilliant white of the adult, relieved 

 by black wings and back, this being assumed when three years old. An 

 unusual spectacle of a bird flying backwards was seen one day when a 

 Pacific Gull on rounding a point met with a strong breeze, and with its 

 wings still moving was driven backward. 



Cymodroma GRALLARIA (White-bellied Storm Petrel). 



PUFFINUS ASSIMILIS (Allied Petrel). 



PUFFINUS TENUIROSTRIS (Short-tailed Petrel).— When on shipboard 

 about the latitude of Wilson Promontory, at 6 a.m. one morning in Novem- 

 ber, thousands of Mutton-Birds were seen flying out to westward for the 

 day. 



Prion desolatus (Dove-Petrel). 



PhalacrOCORAX CARBO (Black Cormorant). 



Phalacrocorax GOULDI (White-breasted Cormorant). 



Sula SERRATOR (Gannet). — A graceful diver. 



*PoDlCEPS CRISTATUS (Tippet Grebe). — Occasionally seen on lagoons. 



*PoDlCEPS NESTOR (Hoary-headed Grebe). — Seen on lagoons. 



Catarrhactes chrysocome (Crested Penguin). 



Eudyptula minor (Little Penguin). 



Chenopis ATRATA (Black Swan). — Common. 



Anas SUPERCILIOSA (Black Duck). — Common. 



Nettion CASTANEUM (Teal).— rhis and the preceding species find much 

 of their food in the kelp on the seashore, and in the shallow water among 

 rocks. They also frequent inland lagoons in company with the other 

 swimmers enumerated, all of which nest on the island. 



* Spatula rhyncotis (Shoveller). 



