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HORN EXPEDITION—AVES. 
time many of them are killed by the natives, dingoes, and wedge-tailed eagles; 
but as our visit was in cool weather, the birds at that time were further north. 
They prefer the open plains, but also frequent the sandhills in search of lizards 
and locusts. 
No. 18. Eudromias australis. Australian Dottrel. 
Although not successful in obtaining specimens, we saw these birds and 
picked up a recently-killed one near the telegraph line, against which it had no 
doubt accidentally struck itself. Professor Spencer found a pair of their eggs on 
the camel track, laid on the bare ground without the least pretension to a nest. 
No. 19. CiiLAMYDOCiiEN JUBATA. Maned Goose. 
These birds are met with in considerable numbers near the permanent waters, 
and appeared to have just reared their broods, as our black boys caught several 
unable to fly on 19th May, and a few days later others were found on a waterhole. 
No. 20. Oasarca tadornoides. Chestnut-coloured Sheldrake. 
A pair of these birds was seen on the Palmer River, where they were 
disturbed without being secured. 
No. 21. Anas superciliosa. Wild Duck. 
In the course of the journey we were somewhat surprised to find young birds, 
“ flappers,” in May and June, thus showing that no exact breeding time can be 
fixed for these birds throughout the continent, and when the young broods are 
strong on the wing in other parts, the old birds in Central Australia have not 
even mated. I have since heard that one of Mr. Cowle’s black boys found a nest 
of wild-duck eggs in September. 
No. 22. Nyroca australis. White-eyed Duck. 
Several of these ducks were shot at Owen Springs. 
In addition to the birds shot or noted on our journey, I was shown a small 
collection of skins, or fragments of skins, of a number of birds which had been 
killed near the Alice Springs telegraph station. In one of the operators’ rooms 
several picture frames were covered with wings and tails of the porcupine parrot 
