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 (White-tailed Cockatoo).—Very few.

(Yellow-cheeked Parrakeet).—See article.

(Yellow-collared Parrakeet).—Numerous in places.

(Many-coloured Parrakeet).—See article. Not numerous.

(Bronzewing Pigeon).—Rare. One bird only seen.

(Brush Bronze-wing Pigeon).—Rare. One pair seen. One bird shot.

(Painted Quail).—One bird seen.

(Bustard).—One bird shot. Reported to be very common on the plains.

(Stone-Plover).—Heard at night frequently.

(Black-breasted Plover).—A member of our party reported he saw one in field near the Mission Station.

(Red-capped Dottrel).—Many seen on shores of Lake Hinds.

(Hooded Dottrel).—One of a pair shot on the margin of a brackish lake.

, Vieill. (Banded Stilt).—See article.

(Hoary-headed Grebe).—Several were seen on a dam about 6 miles beyond the Mission Station.

(Mountain-Duck).—One pair seen in the Lake country.

(Grey Teal).—I shot a pair of what I take to be these birds. Saw many others at the dam mentioned.

(White-eyed Duck).—Saw many at the dam mentioned.

, Latham (Emu).—Saw fresh tracks of these birds in many places in the Lake country.

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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