Calyptorhynchus baudini (White-tailed Cockatoo).—Very few.
Platycercus icterotis (Yellow-cheeked Parrakeet).—See article.
Barnardius semitorquatus (Yellow-collared Parrakeet).—Numerous in places.
Psephotus multicolor (Many-coloured Parrakeet).—See article. Not numerous.
Phaps chalcoptera (Bronzewing Pigeon).—Rare. One bird only seen.
Phaps elegans (Brush Bronze-wing Pigeon).—Rare. One pair seen. One bird shot.
Turnix varia (Painted Quail).—One bird seen.
Eupodotis australis (Bustard).—One bird shot. Reported to be very common on the plains.
Burhinus grallarius (Stone-Plover).—Heard at night frequently.
Zonifer tricolor (Black-breasted Plover).—A member of our party reported he saw one in field near the Mission Station.
Ægialitis ruficapilla (Red-capped Dottrel).—Many seen on shores of Lake Hinds.
Ægialitis cucullatus (Hooded Dottrel).—One of a pair shot on the margin of a brackish lake.
Cladorhynchus leucocephalus, Vieill. (Banded Stilt).—See article.
Podicipes poliocephalus (Hoary-headed Grebe).—Several were seen on a dam about 6 miles beyond the Mission Station.
Casarca tadornoides (Mountain-Duck).—One pair seen in the Lake country.
Nettion gibberifrons (Grey Teal).—I shot a pair of what I take to be these birds. Saw many others at the dam mentioned.
Nyroca australis (White-eyed Duck).—Saw many at the dam mentioned.
Dromæus novæ-hollandiæ, Latham (Emu).—Saw fresh tracks of these birds in many places in the Lake country.
Australian Birds in the Zoological Gardens, London, 1903–1904.
By Ed. Degen, Parson's Green, London.
A series of visits recently paid to the world-famous collections at the menageries in Regent's Park discloses two noteworthy features to the ornithologist with a predilection for the Australian avifauna.
Only 60, or about one-twelfth of the total of the Australian birds classified in the "Vernacular List," are clustered round the positive pole, leaving no fewer than 700 to be disposed of on the negative extremity of the circuit, many of which (up to the present, at least) are either lost in space altogether or may have to be looked for, as a highly desirable addition, in their native haunts. It may readily be inferred from this that a
