"''"''o'^'l MILLIGAN, Notes on a Trip to the Wongan Hills, W.A. 1 I 



Calyptorhynchus BAUDINI (White-tailed Cockatoo). — Very few. 



Platycercus ICTEROTIS (Yellow-cheeked Parrakeet). — See article. 



Barnardius SEMITORQUATUS (Yellow-collared Parrakeet). — Numerous in 

 places. 



PSEPHOTUS MULTICOLOR (Many-coloured Parrakeet). — See article. Not 

 numerous. 



Phaps CHALCOPTERA (Bronzewing Pigeon). — Rare. One bird only seen. 



Phaps ELEGANS (Brush Bronze-wing Pigeon). — Rare. One pair seen. 

 One bird shot. 



TURNIX VARIA (Painted Quail). — One bird seen. 



EUPODOTIS AUSTRALIS (Bustard). — One bird shot. Reported to be very 

 common on the plains. 



BURHINUS GRALLARIUS (Stone-Plover). — Heard at night frequently. 



ZONIFER TRICOLOR (Black-breasted Plover). — A member of our party 

 reported he saw one in field near the Mission Station. 



.Egialitis RUFICAPILLa (Red-capped Dottrel). — Many seen on shores of 

 Lake Hinds. 



.^GIALITIS CUCULLATUS (Hooded Dottrel). — One of a pair shot on the 

 margin of a brackish lake. 



Cladorhynchus LEUCOCEPHALUS, Vieill. (Banded Stilt). — See article. 



PODICIPES POLIOCEPHALUS (Hoary-headed Grebe). — Several were seen on 

 a dam about 6 miles beyond the Mission Station. 



Casarca TADORNOIDES (Mountain-Duck). — One pair seen in the L.ake 

 country. 



Nettion GIBBERIFRONS (Grey Teal). — I shot a pair of what I take to be 

 these birds. Saw many others at the dam mentioned. 



Nyroca AUSTRALIS (White-eyed Duck). — Saw many at the dam men- 

 tioned. 



Drom.f;us nov.^-hollandle, Latham (Emu). — Saw fresh tracks of these 

 birds in many places in the Lake country. 



Australian Birds in the Zoological Gardens, London, 



1903-1904. 



By Ed. Degen, Parson's Green, London. 

 A series of visits recently paid to the world-famous collections 

 at the menageries in Regent's Park discloses two noteworthy 

 features to the ornithologist with a predilection for the Aus- 

 tralian avifauna. 



. Only 60, or about one-twelfth of the total of the Australian 

 birds classified in the " Vernacular List," are clustered round 

 the positive pole, leaving no fewer than 700 to be disposed of 

 on the negative extremity of the circuit, many of which (up to 

 the present, at least) are either lost in space altogether or may 

 have to be looked for, as a highly desirable addition, in their 

 native haunts. It may readily be inferred from this that a 



