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752. Casarca tadernoides, Jardine (Shelduck). 

 Loc. — Kellidie Bay. Hab. — 4, 6, 9. 



753. Anas superciliosa, Gmelin (Black Duck). 

 Loc. — Wangary. Hab. — 4, 6, 7, 9. 



754. Nettion castaneum, Eyton (Teal). 

 Loc. — Kellidie Bay. Hab.— 4, 6, 9. 



757. Spatula rhynchotis, Lath. (Shoveller). 



Closely observed by Capt. White on one of the small lagoons. 

 Hab.— 4, 6, 9. 



760. Stictonetta n.bvosa, Gld. (Freckled Duck). 

 Loc. — Near Koppio. Hab. — 4, 6, 7, 9. 



763. BiziURA LOBATA, Shaw (Musk-Duck). 

 Loc. — Port Lincoln. Hab. — 4, 6, 7, 9. 



764. Drom.«us nov^-hollandli£, Lath. (Emu). 

 Loc. — Mortlock. Hab. — 4, 6, 7, 9. 



At Port Lincoln we saw many specimens of the Starling 

 {Stiirmis vulgaris, Linn.), and the Sparrow {Passer douiesticiis, 

 Macg.) It will be interesting to watch the Starling's line of 

 expansion from the Marble Range to the Eucla country. 

 Graziers will get a benefit. 



This list deals only with the birds of the extreme southern 

 portion of Eyre Peninsula. Two very interesting fields still 

 offer themselves — the western coast-line, containing the larger 

 timber and better watered conditions ; and the northern dry 

 area, in its relation to the much drier area. 



Notes on the Rock'Parrakeet (Neophema petrophila). 

 By Charles Barrett, Melbourne. 



(Read before the Bird Observers' Club, 25/// November, 1909. j 



When the ornithologist returns from visiting some place 

 unknown to him before, he brings, not specimens alone, but also 

 pleasant memory pictures of the birds he has studied alive in their 

 native wilds — of birds in nature as distinct from bundles of blood- 

 stained feathers from which the lustre has faded even as the 

 colour and light depart from the eye in death. All bird-lovers, 

 I suppose, " collect " these mental pictures, but I may differ 

 from some in regarding them as more precious than the spoils 

 of the specimen gun. In a charmingly written chapter in his 

 "Birds and Man," my friend, Mr. W. H. Hudson, F.Z.S., 

 describes some of the birds he has seen at their best. His 

 " harvest of the quiet eye " is richer than mine, for he has lived 

 among the birds for many years, doing little else but observe 

 their ways. But I would not exchange my memory picture of 

 the Rock-Parrakeets on Goat Island, in Kellidie Bay, South 



