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Scientific Notes on an Expedition into the North- 

 western Regions of South Australia. 



[Read October 14, 1915.] 



Plates XLIV. to LXX. 



Contents. Page. 



(a) Narrative, by S. A. White, M.B.O.U 707 



(h) Aborigines of the Everard Range, by S. A. 



Wliite, M.B.O.U 725 



Language of the Everard Range Tribe, by J. M. 



Black 732 



(cj Mammalia and Ophidia, by Edgar R. Waite, F.L.S. 735 



(d) AvEs, by S. A. Wliite, M.B.O.U 740 



(e) Stomach Contents of Birds, bv Arthur M. Lea, 



F.E.S. '. 760 



(fj Lacertilia, by F. R. Zietz 766 



(gj MOLLUSCA (Pulmonata), by A. R. Riddle 770 



(h) Arachnida, by W. J. Rainbow ... ... ... 772 



(i ) Insecta : — 



Coleoptera, by Arthur M. Lea, F.E.S. ... 793 



Lepidoptera, by A. Jefferis Turner, M.D., F.E.S. 801 



Hymenoptera, by W. M. Wheeler ... ... 805 



(j) Botany, by J. M. Black 82a 



(a) NARRATIVE. 



By S. A. White, M.B.O.U. 



Plates XLIV. to LXIV. 



Through the courtesy of Sir Richard Butler (the then 

 Minister for Mines), I was granted permission to accompany 

 an expedition to the little known north-western corner of 

 South Australia. This expedition being under the leader- 

 ship of Mr. R. Lockhart Jack, B.E., I went as a scientist, 

 but in an unofficial capacity, and took as an assistant collector 

 and taxidermist Mr. J. P. Rogers. The present notes deal 

 mainly with the zoological and botanical objects noticed 

 during the trip. 



On June 17, 1914, the expedition left Adelaide by rail, 

 reaching Oodnadatta, 700 miles to the north, three days 

 later. We were delayed for a short time at the rail head 

 owing to the non-arrival of our camel train, but the time 

 was utilized in collecting around Oodnadatta. Amongst some 

 rare birds collected were the "Grey Falcon" (Falco hypo- 

 leucusj, "Black-banded W^hiteface" (Aphelocephala nigri- 

 cincta) — a record for furthest south for the latter, 

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