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tion of thousands of water-fowl, Ibis and similar valuable 

 insectivorous birds, mostly by invading rookeries during the 

 nesting season ; they also destroy Lyre-Birds, Bustards, Quail, 

 young Emu, and scores of similar birds, and will do the same to 

 the Scrub-Turkeys and Scrub- Hens in Northern Australia when 

 they reach there. 



I am glad to see that the value of Pelicans and Cormorants is 

 being brought more into prominence, and I hope in time that 

 these birds will be protected, instead of rewards being offered for 

 their destruction. 



I think the Australasian Ornithologists' Union has done good 

 work in helping to popularize the study of birds, and it is mostly 

 due to its members that the subject is assuming the national 

 importance it is justly entitled to, and I hope as years go on that 

 members will not relax their efforts, but will seek more than ever 

 to preserve a valuable national asset — our birds. 



The Birds of Eyre Peninsula, S.A. 



By Robert Hall, C.M.Z.S., Col. Mem. B.O.U. 



Following upon the congress held in Adelaide during 

 September-October last, the Union made an excursion to 

 Eyre Peninsula, extending over ten days. Mr. J. W. Mellor, 

 vice-president, and Capt. White had specially visited the 

 Peninsula and selected a site along the railway line upon the 

 Warunda Creek, at Wanilla, and about 27 miles north of Port 

 Lincoln. The Adelaide S.S. Co. generously placed at the 

 service of the Union a considerable amount of accommodation 

 on their new steam-boat, the Rupara^ trading between Adelaide 

 and the Gulf ports. 



On the evening of 5th October Doctors Angove and Geo. 

 Home, Messrs. L. Barr, C. L. Barrett, H. Burrell, C. C. Clarke, 

 Robert Crompton, A. G. Edquist, Z. Gray, H. H. D. Griffith, 

 Robert Hall, J. A. Leach, M.Sc, A. H. E. Mattingley, C.M.Z.S., 

 J. F. Mellor, J. VV. Mellor, O. W. Rosenhain, Capt. S. A. 

 White, F. R. Zietz, Mesdames Burrell, Israel, Mellor, White, and 

 Misses B. and W. Mellor left Adelaide for Port Lincoln. Upon 

 arrival the party were specially conveyed to their proposed 

 camp by the courtesy of the Hon. the Commissioner for 

 Railways. Maps very kindly supplied by Mr. James W. Jones, 

 Conservator of Water, had been examined. Tents were fixed 

 without delay, and by the evening every member of the expedi- 

 tion was prepared to see how the country was constructed, 

 and what it offered of special interest to them — a body of 

 ornithologists. 



The members mostly occupied themselves about the camp. 

 Two little trips were made to the foot of the Koppio Hills. On 



