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beautiful sight 'on a s'liady water at the Reedbeds that morning. 

 The fantailed cuckoo had been heard callling in its mournful 

 way for some weeks pas't. He also annoimced that all the blue 

 wrens {maluri)had now changed into their full blue and black 

 plumage, with the exception of one bird, which showed dark 

 spots about the throat, denoting a change of plumage about to 

 take place. He said a baldcoot had been seen flying high well 

 over the big gumtrees at 4 p.m., this being an unusual sight, as 

 these birds generally flj at night. The birds under discussion 

 for the evening were : — The brown scrub wren ( Tasmanornis 

 humilis), a bird confined to the scrubs of Tasmania; Flinders 

 Ifdand scrub wren (T. humilis flindersi), described by White 

 and Mellor after visiting Flinders Island, Bass Straits, in 1913 ; 

 collared scrub wren {Oreoscopus gutturalis) , which is found in 

 the North of Queensland; scrub tit {Acanthornis magnus), 

 only found in Tasmania; the long-tailed blue wren {Malurus 

 cyaneus), described by Gamlin in 1789 from a specimen taken 

 at Adventure Bay, South Tasmania; North Tasmanian blue 

 wren {Malurus cyaneus fletcJierae) , named after Miss Fletcher, 

 of the Tasmanian Educational Department; Flinders Island 

 blue wren (Malurus cyaneus samueli), being confined to Flin- 

 ders Island; King Island blue wren (M. cyaneus elizabethae), 

 this also only being found on the island from which it derives its 

 name; Victorian blue wren (M. cyaneus henrieffae), being 

 found only in Victoria; southern blue wren (M. cyaneus leggei), 

 the type locality of this specimen being from the mangroves of 

 the Port Adelaide River; Kangaroo Island blue wren (M. cyan- 

 eus ashbyi), this Kangaroo Island species was named by G. M. 

 Maithows in 1912; blue wren (1/. cyaneus australis), being- 

 found in New South Wales; silvery blue wren [M. cyaneus 

 cyanochlamys) , a beautiful bird having its habitat in southern 

 Queensland and north New South Wales, 



Owing to the restricted tram service, due to the Seamen's 

 Strike, no meeting was held in July. 



SEPTEMBER 1, 1919. 

 Capt. S. A. White presided over a large attendance. Mr. 

 E. A. Brooks, of Buckland Park, was proposed as a member, and 

 Mr. J. Sutton, of Netherby, was duly elected. The Secretary 

 reported that the Government had granted the Association a 

 licence to occupy the Islands in the Bird Protection Area in the 

 Coorong. The Chairman read an extract from The South-Eas- 

 tern Times, which had been handed in bv Mr. F. R. Zietz, and 



