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ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



Royal Society of South Australia 



(Incorporated) 



for 1913-14. 



Ordinary Meeting, November 13, 1913. 



The President (J. C. Verco, M.D., F.R.C.S.) in the 

 chair. 



Exhibits. — Mr. A. M. Lea, F.E.S., exhibited a cabinet 

 drawer containing a majority of the insects taken by Captain 

 S. A. White on his recent expedition to the interior; also two 

 very large scorpions obtained on the same expedition. Some 

 of the specimens were very interesting, and some were new to 

 science. He also exhibited three cabinet drawers of gall 

 insects, mostly from about Adelaide and from Kangaroo 

 Island, special reference being made to a gall which is in- 

 habited, first by the larva of a moth, then by ants, and finally 

 by a curious spider. Mr. F. R. Zietz exhibited two birds, 

 Eidaheornis castaneoventris (chestnut-bellied rail), collected 

 by Mr. Dodd, Museum collector, from King Sound, Western 

 Australia, and from Melville Island, Northern Territory. 

 Captain S. A. White exhibited the following birds, taken on 

 his recent expedition, viz. : — Malurus callainiis (Gould), re- 

 corded by the Horn expedition as Malurus melanotics, but now 

 found to be callainiis; Leggeornis lamberti morgani (White) 

 (Morgan's wren), described by the Horn expedition as 31. lam- 

 berti, but differing very much from that bird; Pardalotus 

 riibricatus (Gould) (red-browed pardalote), recorded by the 

 Horn expedition, and also found in the north and north-west 

 of Australia; Hallornis cyanotics (white-winged wren), found 

 from a few miles north of Adelaide to the MacDonnell Ranges ; 

 Chlamydera maculata macdonnelli (yellow-spotted bower 

 bird), found in the deep ravines of the MacDonnell Ranges, a 

 very timid bird, and a great mimic, being able to imitate manjr 



