Con-tents - April, 1910. 



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On the East Murchison : Four Months' Collecting Trip. 



By F. Lawson Whitlock, Young's Siaing, D.R., IVestern Australia i8i 



Examination of Contents of Stomachs and Crops of Some 

 Australian Birds. By J. Burton Cleland, M.D., Ch.M.^ 

 Sydney, N.S.IV. - - - - 219 



In the Mallee. By F. E. Howe, F.Z.S., Melbourne - - - 227 



The Bell Miner (Manorhina Melanophrys). By F. E. Wilson, 



Metbour?ie -.--.....-- 234 



Notes on the Satin Bower-Bird (Ptilonorhynchus vio- 



LACENS). By C. F. Cole, Melbourne 236 



List of Birds Observed on Parry's Creek, North-west 



Australia. By Gregory M. Mathews, F.L.S^'&'c. - - 238 



Birds About Drouin, Gippsland. By Isaac Batey - - - 241 



Stray Feathers. — Cuckoo Notes, 245; Feathers and Frost, 245; Full Clutches of 

 Wattle-Birds, 245 ; A Novel Experiment, 246 ; Remarks on Eopsaltria jacksoni, 

 246 ; The Magpie Defamed, 246 ; Tooth-billed Bower-Bird, 247 ; Flame-breasted 

 Robin, 247 ; The White-throated Fly-eater, 247 ; The Coach whip- Bird (Psophodes 

 crepitans), 248 ; Double-banded Dottrel, 248 ; 1 he Brown Tit (Acanthiza pusilla) 

 as a Mimic, 248; Moulting of Blue Wrens {Malurus gouldi), 249; New Nesting 

 Locality for Flame-breasted Robin, 249 ; Occurrence of the King Penguin in Tas- 

 mania, 250; Cleveland (Tas.) Notes, 251; How the Penguin Fishes, 252; Birds 

 Observed at Interlaken, Tasmania, 254 ; Bird Notes from the Upper Goulburn, 255. 



From Magazines, &c.— A Wonderful Migrant - - . . 256 



Reviews - 259 



Correspondence ---------- 260 



Obituary Notice ---------- 262 



Bird Observers' Club --------- 265 



Notes and Notices 265 



Publications Received - - - - 267 



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