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44. Ked-browod Finch {Arrjintha temporalis iregellasi).— 

 C'oiniiion tliroiioliout tho trip. A nest with three fresh eggs 

 was found at Sherbrooke. 



45. Crow (Corrufi coronoidcH perplexus). — A large flock 

 of many hundreds of birds was seen flying nearly every morn- 

 ing over the township of Marysville. 



46. Pied Bell Magpie i Stre))era gracuUna graculina) . — 

 One was seen on the road from Healesville to Marysville. and 

 a few others were seen close to the latter place. 



47. Grey Bell Magpie [Neo-Htrepera versicolor rieiUoti ) . — 

 This bird was niore plentiful than the last species in tin' 

 Marysville district, and on one occasion two young birds were 

 seen. 



Geobasileus hedleyi rosinae. 



By F. E. Parsons, R.A.O.T. 



Few ornithologists have yet had an opportunity of study- 

 ing this recent addition to the list of Australian "tit warblers." 

 It was first described by G. M. Mathews in the Austral Av: 

 Kecoid Vol. 2. page from specimens obtained by Captain 

 S. A. White in the vicinity of St. Kilda, about 20 miles North 

 of Adelaide. 



Xo particulars of the habits or economy of this bird were 

 published when it was described, and nothing has been written 

 since, so that it will not be out of place to record a few personal 

 observations though they be scanty. 



The country where Capt. White collected his specimens is 

 a strip of land bordering the coast, and consists of a large 

 area of low lying land which is subject to inundation by high 

 tides, and is thickly clothed with low bushes and samphire, 

 with a margin of mangroves on the sea side of it. Similar 

 country to this extends all the way north to Port Wakefield at 

 tho head of the Gulf, and then south for about twenty miles on 

 the western side of St. Vincent Gulf; it was here that I came 

 across these birds in large numbers. 



This appears to be essentially a swamp tit. as it is never 

 found away from the samphire swamp land, neither is it ever 

 seen in the mangroves. 



"Acanthiza puftilla" is fairly plentiful in the mangroves 

 and "d^'-^^uinUena ehrysorrhous" is found on the land border of 



