2o6 BIRDS OF THE DISTRICT OF GEELONG 
It may be useful to append a list of the Victorian 
appearances of this bird in the summer of 1911-12 
as recorded in the Argus^ as follows : 
November 6th, — Maffra. Five or six. A. F. Linton. 
December i^th, — ^Tamanick. Fifty. Weston. 
December zSth. — Hastings. P. L. S. O'Shanassy. 
January 1st, — Fyansford-Batesford. Fifty flying 
west and north-west. H. Riordan. 
January ^th, — ^Winton North. Two hundred flying 
north. Miss Weston. 
January 6th, — Ringwood. Large flock, flying north- 
north-east. " Ringwood-park." 
January. — Stawell. One picked up with broken 
wing. 
February 2nd, — Hastings. Great numbers. P. L. 
S. O'Shanassy. 
February 2nd, — Geelong. Forty, flying west. C. 
F. Belcher. 
February 2nd, — Lorne. Large numbers, flying west. 
D. Macdonald. 
March 2nd, — Duneed. Fifty, flying west. C. F. 
Belcher. 
March loth, — Gnarwarre. One hundred, flying 
north-north-east. C. F. Belcher. 
March 20th, — ^Apollo Bay. Twenty, stationary. 
" W. J. S." (Hawthorn). 
March $oth, — Sale. Immense flock, flying west. 
" Deeby," Sale. 
April ^th, — Curlewis. Twenty, flying east. " Ob- 
server " (Meredith). 
