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received four more specimens from my correspondent: in none 

 of them does the rump appear to be paler than in specimens 

 collected near Adelaide. The freckled marking on the breast 

 is present in all the specimens, including all the males, whereas 

 there are no indications of it in the adult males from South 

 Australia. I conclude that the presence of this marking in 

 the Pine Creek specimens is due to immaturity. 



Edwin Ashby, 



"Wittunga," Blackwood. 



Vol, 2, part 2, page 42:— 



Line 26 — Anthochaera chrysoptera intermedia (Southern 

 red wattle bird) should be Golem caruncnlata tregellasi. 



Line 33 — Dyottornis paradoxus should be Anthochaera 

 chrysoptera intermedia (Southern red wattle bird). Brush wattle 

 bird. 



A Sketch of the Life of Samuel White — 

 Ornithologist, Soldier, Sailor, and Explorer. 



[By His Son, S. A. White.] 

 V.— THE ORNITHOLOGIST. 



Additional notes having come to hand I find that I have 

 omitted one or two important facts. Soon after Samuel 

 White's return with his brother, William, from the Murray 

 Biver in 1865 he must have embarked on another expedition, 

 this time taking a man servant, Cottrell by name, two horses, 

 and a cart. On the latter was packed a light flat-bottom boat 

 to enable the ornithologist to cross any estuaries or arms of 

 the Gulfs. He seems to have shaped a course along the Gulf 

 of St. Vincent, and passed round its head, then followed the 

 coastline of Spencer's Gulf till a spot was reached some little 

 distance north of Port Germein and south of Port Augusta. 

 Here he undertook the hazardous course of crossing the Gulf, 

 using; a blanket as a makeshift sail for his little boat. Cottrell 



