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tor for bird protection and as time goes on will become more 

 so. There are now in the State 346 school clubs, with about 

 11,000 members. 



In conclusion it may be interesting to give a list of the sanc- 

 tuaries gazetted under the Birds Protection Act of 1900, al- 

 though it may be incomplete. 



These I think are all owing to recommendations from this 

 Association. 



All forest reserves, the principal of which are Wirrabara, 

 Kuitpo, Narracoorte, Warunda, etc., Explosives magazine re- 

 serve, Dangerous Reef, Page's Islands off Kangaroo Island, Is 

 lands in the upper Coorong, Islands in Coffins, Mount Button, 

 and Kellidie Bays, Cape Borda reserve, Waterfall Gully, Lake 

 Bonney, Kensington Gardens. 



The Avifauna of Melville Island, Northern 

 Territory. 



By F. R. Zietz. 



The following is a list with short descriptions of nine new sub- 

 species of birds known to occur on Melville Island. This list 

 has been compiled from those recorded by Mr. Gregory M. 

 Mathews in "The Austral Avian Record," which were collected 

 for him by Mr. J. P. Rogers. Mr. Mathews records 67 sub- 

 species, to which I am now able to add 30, making a total of 

 97. These additional ones are in the South Australian 

 Museum collection and were recently collected by Mr. W. D. 

 Dodd, who was engaged to collect natural history specimens 

 in Western Australia, the Northern Territory, and Queensland. 

 Mr. Dodd did exceedingly well in regard to birds for the short 

 time that he spent on the island, as he had to attend to other 

 branches of zoology besides ornithology. He landed on the is- 

 land on the 7th of July and left again on the 30th August and 

 collected altogether 85 species, the eggs of about 20, and seve- 

 ral nests. After leaving Melville Island, Mr. Dodd visited 

 Bathurst Island, where he also obtained several birds, 

 which have not yet come to hand. He has now commenced to 

 collect on the mainland. Specimens from the latter locality 

 will be very welcome as they will prove valuable for compari- 



