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tliroiigh Professor Kerr Grant. He also thought that he might 

 get Professor A. G. Strong to inform us of the allusi'ons to 

 bird flight in poetry. 



The birds discussed by the Vice-President, Mr. F. E. Par- 

 sons, were the Artamidae seen in South Australia. The speci- 

 mens exhibited were shown b}' Messrs. J. W. Mellor and F. E. 

 Parsons and the Museum, per Dr. A. M. Morgan. White- 

 breasted Wood Swallow {Artamus leucorhynchus — Breast, 

 jibdomen, and rum}), white;, dark slate head, back, throat, 

 and tail. Thiis bird is never far from water, and is 

 seen in the big timber on the Murray as far down as 

 WonrVs Point. Migratory. White-browed Wood Swal- 

 low (Artamus superciliosus)— Dark slate on back; white 

 eyebrow; abdomen, rich chestnut; tail, tipped white. These 

 birds are seen everywhere in South Australia. Migratory. 

 Masked Wood Swallow (ArtdDiiis pprsonatus) — Dark 

 slate back; black throat, with white edge, underneath 

 grey. Migratory, and comes south in the breeding season, 

 in eompany with the White-browed Wood 'Swallow, and both 

 those species consume great numbers of the young locusts. 

 P. lack-faced A'^'ood Swi'llow {Arfdiinis ciiicrciis) — A 

 smaller bird, black face; grey breast; abdomen, darker grey; 

 tail, tipped white. A Centra] Australian bird, but migratory, 

 and has been noted in this State as far down as Port Augusta 

 and Renmark. Wood Swallow (Artamus oiianoptcrus) — 

 Ohocolate-brown head; back and underneath and wings black, 

 with white outer edge, tail tipped white. A very Interesting 

 note on this particular species, which may b? seen about the 

 Adelaide Plains and the Hills at the present time, was handed 

 in by Mr. A. Grompton, of Tapper Kensington (vide notes'). 

 All the voung of the Wood Swaliowis ai'e stri|»ed underneath 

 and on the back, but the wings are a blackish colour. 



— Meeting held on the 25th August, 1922. — 



Mr. F. M. Angel in the chair Cin the unavoidable absence 

 of the President and Vice-President) . 



The new members pro|)Osed at the June meeting. Messrs. 

 H. J. Brewster Jones and Eric S. Paterson, were duly elected, 

 and Mr. J. W. Go'odale was duly propcsed and seconded for 

 membership. 



The follov.-ing donations were notified and a vote of thanks 

 was passed to each of the donors : — Mr. H. L. White, of ''Bell- 

 trees," Scone, N.S.W., forwarded a copy of "Index to The Emu," 

 volumes 1 to 20. and ^\v. Robert Hall, of BellcviU'. Tasmania, 

 presented a copy of his latest work, "Australian Bird Maps." 



