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year, and stated that it was a record for so many white 

 cranes to have been seen together in the district. Mr. J. W. 

 Mellor mentioned having seen the white crane and the ibis 

 at Lockleys; he also reported the white-fronted heron having 

 young in the same district, and communicated upon the tame- 

 ness of all these birds. Mr. E. Ashby reported having seen 

 the white crane, also a bittern at Blackwood. He also re- 

 ported that the swift parrot was still about in the 

 ranges. Mr. F. R. Zietz exhibited the skin of the grey-faced 

 petrel, which is a record for South Australian waters, it hav- 

 ing been recorded breeding off the Western Australian 

 Coast. The bird had been evidently driven in by stress of 

 weather, for it was captured on the beach near Brighton after 

 the recent storms. Mr. Ashby showed a nest and eggs of the 

 restless flycatcher, which had been taken this season. The 

 discussions of the evening comprised the family of birds 

 commonly known as babblers (Pomatostomus). The following 

 birds came under notice: — Australian babbler (P. temporalis), 

 from Queensland, N.S.W., Victoria, and South Australia; the 

 chestnut-crowned babbler (P. ruficeps), white-browed babbler 

 (Morganomis super ciliosus)). Specimens of the genus were 

 shown from many parts of the State. Specimens of all the 

 above species were shown by Mr. F. R. Zietz from the Museum 

 collection, and by Messrs. E. Ashby, F. Parsons, J. W. Mel- 

 lor, and Capt. White's private collections. 



Order Charadriformes, Family Vanellidae, 

 Genus Zonifer. 



Zonifer tricolor — The Black-breasted Plover, sometimes 

 called the Queen Plover to distinguish it from its larger rela- 

 tive the spur-winged plover, which in some parts is called the 

 King Plover. 



Description — Upper Surface. — Upper part of the head, 

 black; upper back, brown; middle and lower back, brown, 

 tinged with dull purple; upper tail coverts, white. 



Under Surface — Throat, neck, and upper breast, white; 

 lores and a line under the eye, black, bounded above by 

 a narrow line of white broadening behind the eye, and extend- 

 ing to the sides of the occiput; breast, black extending up the 

 sides of the neck to join the black line on the isides of the 

 head; abdomen and under tail coverts, white. 



