74 UELLOE— Urgent Honeij-eaters. 



Gerthionyx variegatus, Pied Honey-eater. 

 MeUphuya .-ionora, Sontlieiii t^iugiug ilouey-eatei'. 

 lAchenostomus ornatus, Yellow-plumed Honey eater. 

 Pfllotnlu penicillata Ivilaralensis, Clonciirry White- 



pluiiied Honey -eater. 

 Myzantha flavigula. Yellow-throated Miuah. 

 Coleia carunculata tregellasi, Victorian Yellow Wattle 



Bird. 

 Acanthageuys rufoguluris cygnus, Southern vSpiny-cheeked 



Honey-eater. 

 Anthus australis adelaidensis , Southern Pipit, 

 Taeniopygia casta not is. Chestnut-eared Finch. 

 Corvtis corona ides, xVustralian Kaven. 

 Cornis hen)ictti. Small-billed Crow. 



INTRODUCED. 



Passer domesticus. Sparrow. 

 >Stur7iiis vvlgaris. Starling.. 



Of the above one hundred and thirty six Native birds ob 

 served, 70 are known to breed in this locality. 



Regent Honey-eaters — Visit to the Adelnide Plains. 



By J. \\. Mellok. R.A.O.r. 



The most remarkable bird noted for May, 1919, and the 

 most pleasing record that I have made for the district of 

 Lockleys, S.A., was the sudden appearance of the Regent 

 Honey eater (Zanthomiza phrygia tregellasi) during 

 the latter part of April and early part of May. 

 Although I kept a sharp lookout for the bird in other parts 

 of the district. I was unable to detect it elsewhere than on my 

 estate. The fine old gum trees here seemed especially to at- 

 tract them, the native blue gum being the favourite, for it 

 was amongst the gnarled boughs and limbs of these trees 

 that the Regent Honey-eaters made their chief abode during 

 their brief stay with us. They were evidently migrating, but 

 from whence they came, or whither they went no data has 

 been obtainable. 1 assumed that they were making for the 

 Mount Lofty Ranges, as they have often been recorded by 

 our local naturalists about Blackwood and Belair. and at 



