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(4.) Micrceca fascinans Lath. Brown Flycatcher (Ben- 



werrin) 

 (5.) Erythrodryas rosea Gld. Rose Robin (River St. George) 

 (6.) Ptilonorhynchus violaceus 



Vieill, Satin Bower Bird (Mt. Sabine 

 and Bambra) 

 ?(j.) Licmetis nasica Temm. Corella (Bambra) 

 (8.) Callocephalon galeatum 



Lath. Gang Gang Cockatoo (Lome) 

 (g.) Trichoglossus concinnus 



Shaw. Musk Lorikeet (Lome) 

 (io.) Hccmatopus longirostris 



Vieill. White- breasted Oyster- 

 catcher (River Aire and 

 River St. George) 

 (11.) Hamatopus unicolor 



Wagl. Sooty Oystercatcher (River 

 Aire & River St. George) 

 ?(i2.) Porphyrio melanotus 



Temm. Black-backed Porphyrio 

 (River Erskine) 

 (13.) Gygnus atratus Lath. Black Swan (River St. George) 



CLOUD OBSERVATION. 



By Miss E. Ison Baker, Ballarat Observatory. 



In 1891 The International Meteorological Conference meeting 

 •at Munich resolved to promote the study of the forms and 

 motions of clouds, by means of concerted observations at the 

 various observatories of the globe. They recommended that 

 the cloud classification proposed by Messrs. Hildebrandson 

 and Abercromby should be adopted, and that the observations 

 should extend over a year at least. 



When the final arrangements had been made (and it 

 took some time to do this) the committee decided to ask all 

 countries to take part in a common investigation of the upper 

 currents of the atmosphere by means of observations of the 

 directions, and by measurements of the altitudes and motions 

 of the different forms of clouds. These observations were to 

 commence on May ist, 1896, and to be continued for a year. 



Simple instructions were supplied, and no instruments 

 ■except simple nephoscopes were required. About fifty 

 promises of co-operation were received, but, as time went 

 ■on, several dropped out, and when it was decided to extend 

 the time till the end of the present year, it was found that 



