CROMPTON — History of Ornithology in South Australia. 



6. The election of officers shall take place at the annual gene 



ral meeting to be held in March of each year. 



*A11 nominations shall be in the hands of the Secretary 



at least ten days previous to such meeting, or adjourned 



meeting. 



7. New members may be proposed and seconded by two 



members of the Association at any meeting and must be 

 balloted for at the next evening meeting; one black ball 

 in five to exclude. 



8. The entrance fee shall be five shillings and the annual sub 



scription two shillings and sixpence. 



*The entrance fee shall be five shillings and the annual 



subscription fifteen shillings to begin from March, 1914. 



9. A record book shall be kept in charge of the Secretary, to 



which all members shall at convenient times have ac- 

 cess, and in which they may record any ornithological 

 observations of interest they may make. 



10. The business at general meetings shall be the election of 



officers and new members, the reading of papers, and the 

 exhibition of specimens, and general discussion of orni 

 thological matters. 



11. At general meetings three shall form a quorum, at com- 



mittee meetings two shall form a quorum. 



12. These rules may not be altered, added to, or rescinded, ex- 



cept on a written motion presented and signed by two 

 members at an evening meeting, and confirmed on the 

 next subsequent evening meeting by a two-thirds ma- 

 jority of those present. 

 * Subsequent additions to rules. 



Some of the more important work done during the fourteen 

 j ears' life of the South Australian Ornithological Association 

 may not be without interest. 



This Association has since its inception stood: — Firstly, for 

 the protection of our native birds, a most important work, as 

 many of them are insectivorous, making their principal if not 

 their only food of pests, which, if not checked would seriously 

 injure if not ruin our forests and greatly diminish our crops. 

 Others are seed eaters and consume enormous quantities of the 

 seeds of thistles and other weeds, thus preventing their spread 

 ing so rapidly. Others again are scavengers, eating dead ani 

 mals, thereby arresting the spread of disease among our stock. 

 Again others are the enemies of snakes, snails, etc., and lastlv 



