112 



Johnston, Internal Parasites. 



tEmu 

 isi Oct. 



Plimmer (/. R. Micr. Soc., 191 2) refers to two other hosts, Stoparola 

 melanops and Estrelda melpoda as harbouring hccmatozoa, and as coming 

 originally from Australia. According to the " British Museum Catalogue," 

 the former is an Indian bird, while the latter belongs to West Africa. 

 Plimmer quotes the locality of the latter bird as Australia (p. 141), and as 

 West Africa (p. 147). They are not included in our list. 



Birds of Lake Boga, Victoria* 



By a. Chas. Stone, R.A.O.U., Melbourne. 



The following observations were made during a residence oi 

 eighteen years in the Lake Boga district. When 1 first arrived 

 no mallee scrub had been cut or rolled down, and the Murray 

 flats were but sparsely populated. Since, the face of the country 

 has been greatly changed. 



Uroaetus audax. Wedge-tailed Eagle, " Nurrayil " — Some years 

 ago, about 4 miles from Lake Boga, I took from an Eagle's eyrie two 

 Eaglets like two big balls of white fluif. 



I carried them home in a 



* The names in inverted commas are those of the Lake Boga tribe ol 

 aborigines. An interesting account of this almost defunct tribe (Gourrni- 

 janyuk, name, signifying " alongside edge of trees "), by Mr. Stone, appears 

 in the Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, vol. xxiii. (N.S.), part ii. (191 1). — Eds. 



