Vol. IV. 

 1904 



J Sir ay Feathers. 'i % 



Clermont. — 3rd January, 1904. — Bee-eaters feeding four young 

 ones on my garden fence, Clermont. 



Langton. — 8th January. — Quail very numerous on volcanic 

 downs, especially small chestnut-throated variety. Caught young 

 ones. — J. B. C. Ford. Clermont (Q.), 1 5/1/04. 



From Magazines, &c. 



At a meeting of the Linnean Society of N.S. Wales, held 27th 

 April, 1904 (see Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., vol. xxix., part i, 

 p. 130) Mr. A. J. North exhibited, amongst other interesting 

 northern Finches, the rare Munia fiavi pryrnria (Gould) and 

 Poephila atropygialis (Diggles), recording that he considered 

 P. nigrotecta (Hartert) is a synonym of the latter species — a con- 

 clusion previously pointed out in another work.* 



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Mr. G. a. Keartland is the proud possessor of the only known 

 clutch (two eggs) of the scarce Guttated Bower-Bird {Chlamydera 

 guttata). One egg was previously described by Mr. A. J. North. 

 The description of the second, by the same author, has appeared 

 in the " Records of the Australian Museum," vol. v., p. 131 (1904), 

 together with an illustration (plate xvi.) of a nest, the usual 

 flatfish, twig-built structure characteristic of the genera. The 

 nest was found during January, 1903, in a native orange tree 

 (^Capparis), and contained three young. 

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Mr. J. C. GOUDIE contributes an agreeable article — " A Summer 

 in South Gippsland " — to the Victorian Naturalist (August, 

 1904), wherein he records some of his pleasant reminiscences 

 of forest-loving birds. On climbing a few feet to look into a 

 Lyre-Bird's nest he was anticipated by meeting " eye to eye " 

 a tiger snake gliding out instead of seeing the wonderful Menura. 

 Mr. Goudie mentions having seen a small company of Ground- 

 Wrens {Hylacola cautd). This bird has never been previously 

 recorded so far east, it being a dweller of the Mallee and more 

 western parts. However, Mr. Goudie hails from the Mallee 

 himself, and with his good field experience he should be familiar 

 with both the species named and its congener, H. pyrrhopygia. 

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The rediscovery of the Ewing Tit {Acantkiza cwingi), as recorded 

 at the Hobart Session of the Aust. O.U.,t has raised considerable 

 interest. According to the Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, vol. 

 xxix., part i (issued loth August, 1904), p. 58, Mr. A. J. North 

 exhibited at a meeting of the Society held 30th March, 1904, 

 skins, nest, and eggs of A. ewingi, together with those of Acan- 

 thornis magna. The birds, it was stated, were received in the 



* Campbell, " Nests and Eggs," p. 496 (1900). 

 \ E7nu, vol. iii., pp. 159 and 162. 



