CHECKLIST NEWSLETTER NO. 2 - AUGUST 1987 
At last count there were over 150 volunteers from all over the agricultural 
area involved in the checklist project. 
Why produce ^ Newsletter? 
The checklist project is intended to run for several years because it is 
important to examine variation between years as well as within years. This 
is obviously asking a great deal of you as checklist observers and the 
Newsletter is to keep you in touch and to let you know that you have not 
been forgotten during the course of the project. 
I get various letters telling me of interesting sightings and asking 
questions about bird watching techniques. These sorts of things will appear 
in future Newsletters. 
Common Names. The checklist gives a single common name for each species, 
but some people (and books) refer to them under different names. To help 
clear up any confusion associated with the choice of common names, those 
which might be confusing are listed below, together with their scientific 
name. 
Ardea pacifica 
Milvus migrans 
White-necked Heron (Pacific Heron) 
Black Kite (Fork-tailed Kite) 
Whistling Kite (Whistling Eagle) 
Brown Goshawk (Australian Goshawk) 
Little Falcon (Australian Hobby) 
Brown Falcon (Brown Hawk) 
Haliastur spenurus 
Accipiter fasciatus 
Falco longipennis 
Falco berigora 
Carnaby*s Cockatoo (White-tailed Black Cockatoo) Calyptorhynchus 
latirostris 
(in some books it is still Calyptorhynchus baudinii ) 
Cacatua leadbeateri 
Polytelis anthopeplus 
Purpureicephalus spurius 
Neophema elegans 
Sericornis cautus 
Sericornis fuliginosus 
Gerygone fusca 
Acanthiza apicalis 
Pink Cockatoo (Major Mitchell) 
Regent Parrot (Smoker) 
Red-capped Parrot (King Parrot) 
Elegant Parrot (Grass Parrot) 
Shy Hylacola (Mallee Heath-wren) 
Field Wren (Calamanthus) 
Western Warbler (Western Flyeater, Sleepy Dick) 
Broad-tailed Thornbill (Inlahd Thornbill) 
Grey-fronted Honeyeater (Yellow-fronted Honeyeater, Plumed Honeyeater) 
Lichenostomus plumulus 
Silvereye (Grey-breasted White eye, greenie) Zosterops lateralis 
i Strepera .versicolor 
Grey Currawong^(Squeaker) 
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What size of area should I collect data from? 
As I said in the last Newsletter, that to the observer^ .Some, people 
are collecting from their house garden, others from their farm and others 
are collecting from their district. As long as you are consistent about 
the area involved and sketch the limits out for me when I sepd out 
replacement checklists at the end of the year, this will enable the data to 
be analysed appropriately. 
Yellow-plumed Honeyeaters 
Murray Arnold (between Bruce Rock and Narambeen) saw six in a large area 
of Mallee during the last week in June. This is the first time he has 
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