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at Hobart, November 23, 1906, made a few trips during 

 1907, attended the Sydney session of 1908, collecting birds 

 at the Tweed River Camp-out, then down the Murray River, 

 and then to the Melbourne session of 1908. In 1909 Eyre's 

 Peninsula was worked, a site for the Ro}al Australasian 

 Ornithologists' Union 1909 Camp-out being desired, and 

 Warunda Creek was selected. The session took place, and 

 another large collection was made. Expedition succeeded 

 expedition, as from the Brisbane session of 1910 they 

 travelled to the Capricorn Camp-out (Captain White being 

 leader of No. 1 party and co-author of the results published) ; 

 afterwards they visited Tambourine Mountain, and on the return 

 trip visited the Riverina, still making collections and amassing 

 notes. About this time Captain White began a series of 

 ornithological articles for the South Australian Register, which 

 have been continued ever since. On April 1, 1911, Captain 

 White was elected President of the South Australian Ornitho- 

 logists' Association, and on the 14th he and Mrs. White left 

 for York Peninsula, working the entire district. In August 

 they revisited Eyre's Peninsula and the West Coast, where they 

 had a very rough trip, but made good collections, working a 

 large tract of country. Next they went to Port Augusta and 

 worked the plains to the west, and also to the east into 

 the Flinders Range. In November we find them in the 

 Mallee, east of the River Murray, where they re-discovered 

 Gould's Pachycephala rufogularis. Immediately afterwards they 

 visited Kangaroo Island, following this by a visit to the Lakes 

 to investigate the water birds ; then to Myponga, towards Cape 

 Jervis, and back to Kangaroo Island. As soon as they returned 

 from this trip they set off for the Gawler Ranges, before going 

 to the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' session at Launceston 

 on November 20, 1912. They attended in order to oppose 

 the Official Check List, moving that it be referred back for 

 further consideration, but received no support. Their judg- 

 ment was good, as the ill-fated Official Check List was practi- 

 cally still born, being severely criticised upon its appearance in 

 the official organs of both the British Ornithologists' Union, 

 the Ibis, and the American Ornithologists' Union, the Auk. 



