34 Th« South Au'traliav. OrvithniogicaL Atunciation. 



Messrs. F. I'aisous and J. N. McGilp were elected a eoiu- 

 mittee to try and secure this collection for the Association. 



Captain S. A. White said he thought the Association 

 should record the good work that Mounted Constable McDonald 

 had done in enforcing;- the Birds and Animal Act during- his 

 stay at Milang. .M.C. McDonald has shown ability and energy 

 in securing convictions against offenders of the law. The 

 Secretary was instructed to write M.C. McDonald thanking him 

 for his good work. 



Captain S. A. White reported that he had just returned 

 from Ooldea on Nullabor Plains. He noticed that Mr. A. S. 

 LeSouef claims having observed the Chestnut-faced Owl, Black- 

 backed Wren aiid Red Throat there, but although Captain 

 White had visited the very blowhole that .Mr. A. S. LeSouef 

 had mentioned, he failed to secure the Chestnut-faced Owl. In 

 his opinion the three above-mentioned birds do not inhabit this 

 locality, and Mr. LeSouef was mistaken in his observations. 



Mr. J. ^V. Mellor reported that the White-i)lumed Honey- 

 eater (the common Greenie) was nesting at liockleys. 



Mr. E. Ashby re])orted a similar occurrence at Blackwood. 



Mr. F. R. Zietz said that a dead cockatoo had been bi-ought 

 to the museum. It a])i»eared to be a <-ross between the Bare- 

 eyed Cockatoo and the Galah or Rose-breasted Cockatoo. The 

 skin is in the S.A. Museum collection. 



Messrs. E. Ashby and J. W. Mellor gave an inieresting 

 lecture on the birds of the Ellenbrook, Geraldton, Dongara, and 

 Murchison districts of W^est Australia. The skins shown were 

 secured while the lecturers were over at the Royal Ornitholo- 

 gical Union Congress, held in Perth in October and November, 

 1920. 



Many interesting comparisons were made with skins that 

 Mr. F. R. Zietz had l)rought along from the S.A. Museum. 



Publications received — ''Birds of the Americas" from the 

 Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, U.S.A. 



—February 25th, 1021.— 



Mr. Edwin Ashby in the chair. 



Letters were received from the Institute of Science and 

 Industry re suspension of their journal ; from H. F. and G. 

 Witherljy re Manual of Australian Birds, by Mathews and 

 Iredale; from Mr. A. G. Edquist. asking contributors to use 

 italics for the Nomenclature of Birds in their M.S.S. 



A number of coloured plates by Neville C^aley were handed 

 round for examination and admiration was generally expressed. 

 These plates will form portion of Caley's "Birds of Australia." 



