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opened up after twelve months' work. 1 believe this con- 

 stitutes a record. It was whilst journeying in the train to 

 this town that we overheard an interesting conversation. It 

 appears that during the summer season the week-end trip 

 which the resident of Wonthaggi most favours is one to the 

 Mutton-bird rookery at Cape Woolamai. Every Saturday and 

 Sunday motor boats constantly ply between San Remo and 

 the Cape. One man has three large launches, and these are 

 going all day long. Last Christmas hundreds of people visited 

 the rookery, disturbing and destroying the birds and their 

 young. Our travelling companion was looking forward to a 

 sporting time next season ; hence the last mainland stronghold 

 of the Mutton-bird is doomed. 



In the appended list of the principal birds seen I have 

 adopted the latest names, as used in Leach's " An Australian 

 Bird Book " ; and in that of the plants I have added the 

 popular names provisionally adopted by the Plant Names 

 Committee, in order that readers may become familiar with 

 them. 



Birds of Bass Valley — Easter, 191 i. 



Synoecus australis 



Cerchneis cenchroides 



Callocephalum galeatum . . 



Platycercus elegans 



P. eximius 



Dacelo gigas 



Menura victorite 



Chelidon (Hirundo) neoxeiia 



Microeca fascinans 



Petroica leggii . . 



P. phoenicea 



Rhipidura albiscapa 



R. motacilloides (tricolor) 



Coracina robusta (Grauculus melan 



ops) 

 Cinclosoma punctatum 

 Calamanthus albilorus 

 Ephthianura albifrons 

 Acanthiza lineata 

 A. uropygialis 

 A. chrysorrhoa . . 

 A. reguloides 

 Sericornis frontalis 

 Malurus cyanochlamys 

 Artamus tenebrosus (A. sordidus) 

 Grallina picata . . 

 CoUuricincla harmonica 

 Gymnorhina leuconota 

 Cracticus destructor 

 Pachycephala pectoralis 



Eopsaltria australis 



Brown Quail 



Nankeen Kestrel 



Gang-Gang Cockatoo 



Crimson Parrot 



Rosella Parrot 



Laughing Kingiisher (Kookaburra) 



Lyre-bird 



Welcome Swallow 



Brown Flycatcher 



Scarlet-breasted Robin 



Flame-breasted Robin 



White-shafted Fantail 



Black and White Fantail 



Black-faced Cuckoo-Shrike 

 Spotted Ground-bird 

 White-browed Field- Wren 

 White-fronted Chat 

 Striated Tit- Warbler 

 Chestnut-rumped Tit- Warbler 

 Yellow-tailed Tit-Warbler 

 Buft-tailed Tit-Warbler 

 White-browed Scrub-Wren 

 Superb Warbler (in full plumage) 

 Wood-Swallow (clustering) 

 Magpie-Lark 

 Grey Shrike-Thrush 

 White-backed IVIagpie 

 Australian Butcher-Bird 

 Golden-breasted Whistler (White- 

 throated Thickhead ) 

 Yellow-breasted Shrike-Robin 



