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Captain and Mrs. White attended the Camp-out at Flinders 

 Island and made good collections. After exploring the Man- 

 grove Coast north of Port Adelaide, they organised their great 

 expedition into Central Australia, and starting on July 30, 



1913, successfully carried out the project. This must stand as 

 a wonderful feat in every way, as Mrs. White travelled sixteen 

 hundred miles on camels through waterless country, and the 

 results obtained surpassed those of the famous Horn Expedition. 

 The latter was fully equipped with a large staff of trained 

 scientists and a taxidermist, while Captain and Mrs. White 

 made the trip on their own account and brought back more 

 specimens. They attended the Royal Australasian Ornitholo- 

 gists' Union trip on the Murray River in 1913, and in June, 



1914, Captain White alone went with the Government Expe- 

 dition to explore the north-west corner of South Australia, 

 and there re-discovered Gould's Banded Whiteface. This was 

 almost the first time that Mrs. White had not accompanied 

 him on the trip. In November, 1914, Captain White was 

 elected President of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' 

 Union and retained office for two years, during which time he 

 and Mrs. White attended the Camp- out in 1914, the only one 

 held during the war. 



In October, 1915, as President of the Field Naturalists' 

 Section, Captain White led a party into the northern end of 

 the Flinders Range, and in the following March worked the 

 Coorong for " Bristle birds." Several trips among the islands 

 in Spencer's and St. Vincent's Gulfs were then undertaken, and 

 seabirds studied. 



In September, 1916, Captain White accompanied the South 

 Australian Museum Expedition to Cooper's Creek, and in 

 September, 1917, he worked Lake Victoria, River Murray, 

 afterwards going to the Nullarbor Plains. 



The above will show that the ornithological survey of South 

 Australia has been fairly completed to the furthest detail, a fact 

 that is inapplicable to any other State, and, moreover, the 

 survey has been carried out by one man, Captain White, and his 

 wife. This achievement places their work quite at the head of 

 ornithological enterprise, and is one almost impossible to surpass. 



