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Hyloclielidon nigricans caleyi (Mathews). Tree-Martin. — 

 A few birds noted. 



Morganorhis sitperciliosus (Vigors and Horsiield). White- 

 throated Baibbler. — These birds were numerous on the main- 

 land. Upon comparing skins with the northern ones it is found 

 there is little or no difference in colouration. The bill of the 

 southern bird seems to be shorter, and not so curved, still the 

 bill of the northern form varies at times. The measure- 

 ments of these specimens taken — No. 1 $ , length, 215 m.m. ; 

 wing from body to tip, 114 m.m.; spread of wings, 265 m.m. 

 No. 2 5 , length. 223 m.m. ; stretch of wing from body to tip, 

 120 m.m.; spread of wings, 251 m.m. No. 3. — $ , length, 190 

 m.m.; wing from body to tip, 110 m.m.; spread of wings, 253 

 m.m. 



Epthianura albifrons (Jardine and Selby.) White-fronted 

 Chat. — Great numbers of these birds were hunting diligently 

 over the flats where the fresh water gravitates into the salt, 

 when the tide came in they went back into the sandhills, and 

 returned when the tide went out. 



AcantMza Uneata (Gould, suib-sp?) Striated Tit. — A few 

 birds observed in the scrub on the mainland. In comparing 

 them with the Mount Lofty Range bird the bill is not so stout 

 and more pointed, the brown on the forehead and the stri- 

 ations are almost absent, and the green on the hack is not so 

 pronounced. A $ measured — length, 100 m.m. ; wing from 

 body to tip, 63 m.m.; spread of wings, 153 m.m. 



Geobasileus chrysorrhous (Quoy and Gaimard). Yellow T - 

 runiped Tit.- — This bird agrees with the southern form, and 

 G. M. Mathews is right in making the northern form a dis- 

 tinct sub. sp., for it is a brighter and larger bird. One speci- 

 men a $ measured — length, 108 m.m.; wing from body to tip, 

 84 m.m.; spread of wings, 285 m.m. 



Sericornis longirostris wyldei (S. A. White.*) Ooorong 

 Scrub Wren. — These birds were very rare and shy, and it was 

 only after many attempts that I was able to procure them, 

 they keep to the lignum creeks, sing a low sweet song morn- 

 ing and evening, otherwise one would never know they live 

 there, the type specimen measures — length, 120 m.m.; wing 

 from body to tip, 75 m.m.; spread of wings, 170 m.m. 



Maccoyorms broadbenti whitei (Mathews). Southern 



Rufous Bristle Bird. — There is quite a number of these 

 birds scattered over the sandhills of Younghusband Peninsula. 

 They were exceedingly shy and difficult to secure, darting 



* "South Australian Ornithologist", Vol. II., p;i°-e 169. 



