8 White, Field Ormthology in South Australia. \^J'"u^\ 



veniris. It resembles that bird, excepting that its entire plumage 

 is very dark, due, no doubt, to its living among the mangroves. 

 In the sand-dunes we found Myzantha flavigiila and a Sericornis 

 which seems similar to the one in the samphire country. 



"Leaving Arno Bay at midnight in a dinghy for the steamer, 

 which lay some distance off the shore, we returned to Port 

 Lincoln, where the boat stayed long enough for us to have a run 

 through the scrub. We saw Tiirnix varia running over the 

 stony ground in the thick scrub, and came upon another little 

 party of Sencornis. Several specimens of Eopsaltria gularis were 

 observed, and, for the first time during this trip, we heard the 

 song of Pachycephala meridionalis . In the thick bush Malurus 

 cyaneus were nesting. There were still great numbers of 

 Trichoglossus novce-hollandice about, in company with Glossop- 

 siitacus porphyriocephalus. They were feeding on the mallee- 

 flowers, and guns were being discharged on every side. It being 

 Saturday afternoon, numbers of lads were out from the town 

 b6nt on bird slaughter. Leaving Port Lincoln that evening, we 

 were home next day, and so ended a very successful trip. 



Two families of birds were met with on this trip — namely, 

 Calamanthiis and Sericornis — which will take a good deal of 

 looking into, and, from the material we have secured, some new 

 divisions should be made. The distribution should prove very 

 interesting. Expeditions of this character should bring to light, 

 if not new species, at least many variations hitherto overlooked. 

 The light brown variety of Sericornis which we found in many 

 parts of Eyre Peninsula seems to be in two distinct forms. The 

 one noted by the members of the R.A.O.U. at Warunda in IQ09 

 still holds good, and is evidently S. maculata. Comparing speci- 

 mens taken during the camp-out in 1909 with some taken near 

 Adelaide and those from Western Australia, one cannot tell one 

 from the other ; yet, according to Mr. A. J . North's description, 

 this is not maculata. What, then, is it ? 



Examination of Contents of Stomachs and Crops of 

 Australian Birds. 



By J. Burton Cleland, M.D., Ch.M., Principal Assistant Micro- 

 biologist, Bureau of Microbiology, Sydney, N.S.W. 



In two previous numbers of The Emu * the results have already 

 been given of the examination of the stomachs and crops of 200 

 birds found in Australia. The present series is a continuation 

 of this, and consists of the examination of the contents of a further 

 number (105) of birds, making a total so far recorded of 305. 



I am again indebted to the valuable information contributed 

 by Mr. W. W. Froggatt, F.L.S., Government Entomologist, New 

 South Wales, and to Mr. J. H. Maiden, F.L.S., Director of the 



* Vol. ix,, p. 219, and vol. xi., p. 79. 



