60 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



Ramsay's Tabular List as occurring in his province 12, which 

 comprises the colonies of Victoria and South Australia. In sever- 

 ing these two colonies into what appeared to me to be correct 

 avi-faunal areas I was at the time unable to trace in area 6 certain 

 birds which I knew to occur in the eastern portion of Victoria, 

 but an examination of the bird skins in the South Australian 

 Museum, through the courtesy of Professor Stirling and the assist- 

 ance of Mr. Zeitz, now enables me to add a number of species to 

 that area. 



Several of the birds are found to be particularly interesting in 

 their distribution. Among the following are five species which 

 are thoroughly migratory, and have been hitherto regarded as 

 taking their course along the eastern side of Australia. The more 

 noticeable are : — 430, Micropus paeificus, now recorded from 

 Derby, North-West Australia ; 441, Eurystomus australis, pre- 

 viously considered accidental in the north-west, but on further 

 evidence must now be recorded as more stationary ; 449, 

 Dacelo cervina, recorded from a little to the north-east of Perth ; 

 487, Gacatua sanguined, from the immediate north of Adelaide, 

 its most southerly limit; 528, Neophema petrophila, from Port 

 Lincoln, the locality through which south-eastern birds have 

 probably passed into south-western Australia ; 546, 547, Geopelia 

 humeralis and G. tranquilla, now practically invest the continent, 

 without penetrating to the central area; 571, Turnix varia, 

 hitherto uncertain as a western bird, but I handled a skin of it at 

 the Perth Museum from the Abrolhos Islands, where I also saw 

 flocks of it ; 589, Gallinula tenebrosa, from near Perth ; 608, 

 Gharadrius dominicus, from the western coast; 613, uEgialitis 

 hiaticola, has been recorded only once for Australia, and then as 

 occurring in area 4 (south-eastern Australia) — now, according to 

 Mr. Woodward, of the Perth Museum, it has been taken on the 

 Abrolhos Islands, leading me to think, as Dr. Ramsay did, that 

 it is the Ceylon bird, JE. jerdoni, Legge ; 628, Heteractitis 

 brevipes, previously recorded from Eastern Australia, now showing 

 with others here recorded a migratory course from the Malay 

 Archipelago along the western as well as the eastern side of the 

 continent ; 653, Sterna melanauchen, generally considered to be 

 a Pacific Ocean bird, or one that follows the course of the mon- 

 soon as far as the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean, has 

 now been found much further south, on the western coast, having 

 been previously known only from the north and north-eastern 

 coasts. 



Reviewing the additions to the various areas, it will be seen 

 that the additional species recorded for area 3 are mostly exten- 

 sions of the southern limits of northern birds from area 2, as 

 nests and eggs of all but 65, Sphecotheres flaviventris, have been 

 taken in the dense scrubs of the Brisbane, Clarence, or Richmond 



