I04 BIRDS OF THE DISTRICT OF GEELONG 
reported from Avalon and Burnside. Mr. Mulder 
has seen one near Lara. The all-year protection 
which the legislature affords may have some effect 
in staying the bird's total disappearance ; but if it 
should survive as a wild creature, it will be due almost 
entirely to the measures taken by a few public-spirited 
Western District landowners to give to this and other 
examples of our swiftly vanishing native fauna a real 
sanctuary within the limits of their estates. 
The Wild Turkey lays but a single egg, on the bare 
plain, without any nest. 
WHITE IBIS 
Threskiornis molucca strictipennis 
All large white birds look very much the same at a 
distance, but with a good glass there should be no 
difficulty in identifying the White Ibis by his long 
down-curved bill and the few stiff black dorsal plumes 
which set off the snowy general plumage. And 
while the White Egret, for instance, may be expected 
on the Barwon in any year, you will not meet with 
the White Ibis except in a season of drought in the 
interior. They breed, associated in large flocks, in 
parts of Riverina, treading down masses of rushes in 
a swamp to form their nests ; there are also places 
in the Victorian Western District where the nests 
have been noted, but it is probable that the birds 
which visit Geelong come from the north. 
I have notes of their appearance in the years 1892 
