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History of Ornithology in South Australia (R. Crompton) - - 5 



The Avifauna of Melville Island, Northern Territory (Zietz) - 11 



Order Passeriforines, Family Muscicapidae. RMpidura Tricolor 



—The Black and White Fantail 18 



Halcyon macleayii cceruleus sub.sp n. The Northern Forest 



Kingfisher (Ashby) - 20 



A note on Dicceum hirundinaceum and the Loranthus seed 



(Morgan) , 21 



Current Observations : — 



Fantailed Cuckoo Breeding near Adelaide (Mellor) - 22 



Black-tailed Native Hen, etc. (Laffer) 23 



Observation of Laughing Jackass — Dacelo gigas (C. L. Crompton) 23 



