White, An Ornithological Cruise. 



r Emu 

 L,st July 



" Haycock Rocks." Like all the other islands, this one has a 

 base of dark granite capped by calciferous sandstone. Messrs. 

 Golley Bros., who own the island, live upon it and breed a good 

 stamp of pony. We landed that evening, but did not stay on 

 shore long. Next morning, after breakfast, Mr. A. G. Rymill, 

 Dr. Morgan, one of the Golleys, and the writer set out for the far 

 end of the island. After leaving the bay, with its sandy beach, 

 we passed over a clear, level country covered in high dry grass, 

 mostly barley-grass [Hordeum murinum) and wild oats. Then 

 the land began to rise towards the south-east, and we passed 



Sheoak on Wedge Island — Nc 



FROM A PHOTO. BY S. A. WHITE, 



Site of Brown Hawk. 



through clumps, extending over 15 or 20 acres, of sheoak 

 {Casuarina stricta), where we saw many Southern Stone-Curlew 

 or Stone-Plover. May they always remain there, for they are 

 free from the scourge of the Australian fauna, the fox. Passing 

 over another bare space covered in high dry grass (and rising 

 all the time), we entered a wide gully where large Myoporitm 

 bushes (M. insulare) were growing, and here we saw many White- 

 eyes {Zosterops) and Scrub- Wrens [Sericornis). Leaving the 

 hillocks and Mvoponim bushes, we found we were ascending a 

 steeply-sloping shelf, from which the sandy covering had been 



