A.O.U. Camp, Warunda Creek, October, 1900. 



Srfy!HE members of the Australasian Ornithological Union left 

 ^j^ Port Adelaidt- by the well-equipped and comfortable steamer 

 Rupara for Port Lincoln on October 5. The party, including 

 the interstate delegates, were 25 strong — counting the cook. New 

 South Wales was represented by Mr. and Mrs. Burrell; Victoria 

 by Mr. ,T. A. Leach, M.Sc. (head of the Nature Study Department 

 in the sister State), Dr. Home, Messrs. A. H. E. Mattingley, 

 C.M.Z.S., C. L. Barret (The Melbourne Herald staff), Barr, Rosen- 

 hain, Clarke, and Z. Gray; Tasmania by Mr. R. Hall. F.L.S., 

 C.M.Z.S., (Curator of the Hobart Museum), and Mrs. .T. W. Israel; 

 South Australia by Mr. F. R. Zeitz (representing the Adelaide 

 Museum), Dr. Angove, Messrs. R. Crompton, John F. Mellor, J. 

 W. Mellor, Mrs. Mellor, and Misses Mellor (2), Mr. H. D. Griffith, 

 Capt. and Mrs. White, and Mr. A. C. Edquist (of the South- 

 Australian Nature Study Department). The party reached Port 

 Lincoln on the morning of October 6, and proceeded by special 

 train to the camping ground at Warunda Creek, a picturesque spot 

 overshadowed by ancient sugar gums. The remainder of the day 

 was spent in pitching tents and forming camp. On the following 

 morning reveille was sounded at G o'clock, and after a dip in the 

 creek by the gentlemen of tlie party, breakfast was served under 

 the wide-spreading branches of a mammoth sugar gum. All appe- 

 tites were sharpened by the inA'igorating atmosphere, charged with 

 sweet scents from dew-laden shrubs which grew in great profusion 

 around us. Soon a start was made to explore the surrounding- 

 scrub. Ornithologists with their li'--ldglasses, notebooks, and 

 tomahawks sallied forth to make observations, and to cut their 



