The South Auslralian (JrnithoLigical Association. Si* 



of the birds sent to liim. The birds were in very poor condi- 

 tion, and opinions were divided as to whether the mortality was 

 due to disease or starvation. The progress made by the Animals 

 and Birds Protection Bill and the Fauna and Flora Bill in 

 Parliament was discussed, and much satisfaction was ex 

 pressed. There were many interesting notes from the month's 

 observations. Dr. Morgan stated that he had been investigat- 

 ing the nesting place of the house martins, and had found that 

 small depressions were made in masses of gum leaves under the 

 eaves and situated on the wall plate of the house. In these 

 depressions the birds laid their eggs. Mr. Mellor said that 

 two barn owls which had been roosting in a creeper for some 

 time had now left, and that it was quite likely they had gone to 

 seek a nesting hollow ; that the brush wattle birds had been 

 mating at Lockleys, likewise the magpies early in Aug 

 ust. and that the pallid cuckoo had been much in 

 evidence with its strange note. Mr. F. R. Zietz had 

 seen young magpies about early this year. Mr. A. Crompton 

 reported that there was a magpie lark's nest in the Botanic Gar- 

 den, situated over one of the dining tables, and that the land- 

 rails had been seen at Stonyfell all through the year. Early 

 in August he had observed wood swallows clustering at Upper 

 Kensington. Mr. E. Ashby said the regent honey-eater was in 

 numbers at Blackwood just now, and that brush wattle birds 

 were very numerous. The swift lorikeet had been seen at 

 Mitcham. Mr. K. Ashby stated that these birds were always 

 flying from north to south. Mr. Sutton stated that the first 

 pallid cuckoo had reached Netherby on July 31, at 5.8 p.m. He 

 had seen the golden whistler on July 7 and 22, fantailed cuckoo 

 on July 5 and August 16, Rufous-breasted whistler on July 7, 

 spotted diamond bird on June 27 and to July 29. Mr. R. Beck 

 reported that he had seen a magpie kill a blackbird whilst on 

 the wing. The Chairman reported having seen the spinebill 

 at Fulham on July 2 and 10, the black-tailed native hen on July 

 18. the pallid cuckoo on July 20, a bearded honey-eater*s nest 

 with two eggs on July 22 (the eggs had hatched out on August 

 1), and Rufous song lark had appeared this season on August 

 30. He exhibited some species of Platifcereus (Adelaide para- 

 keets i. showing the linking up with the palest form found at 

 Mount Remarkable and in the Flinders Range. Mr. Frank 

 PnrsoDs >1k>\v( (1 ilic skins of two dovo-liko prions, found on fht> 

 b^^nrh nt Brighton, niul ^fr. E. Ashby the helmeted honey-eater 

 from Victoria. 



