54 ROGAN, at Maryborouf?h [ Watcher

Corellas, also feeding in a paddock beside the road. We estimated their number to be about 150. It was thrilling to see these uncommon in the one morning, and to realize that the Smoker and the Major Mitchell Cockatoo are becoming more plentiful in than was the case in former years. -Charles Sullivan, Moorabbin. 6 I 3 I 1967.

The Glossy Ibis neac Melbourne during 1965. The Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus) is not often recorded in the vicinity of Mel­ bourne, but towards the end of 1965, an unusual number of these birds were observed. Earlier in that year a single bird was seen at Edithvale, and later at Carrum, on January 16. The bird was also noted in the same area on January 22 and 26. On February 7, eleven birds were observed flying over the salt­ works at Altona, and shortly afterwards they were seen feeding at the nearby Golf-links swamp. At the McLeod Road Swamp, Carrum, on October 16, I saw 22 birds arrive from high up to the north, in the early morning. By mid-morning there were 43 Glossy Ibis together, with other single birds and small groups scattered about the swamp. In this general area on the same day, M. J. Carter, of Frankston, saw many of this species of Ibis, and he kept a daily check on them whilst they were in the district. From October 16 to 23, the birds were seen each day, in vary­ ing numbers. The largest group that was noted together totalled 140 birds, on October 17, and they were at the section of Carrum Swamp on the north side of McLeod Road. During the period of their visitation the birds scattered over the area to feed at shallow marshy and swampy fields, not far from the Carrum Swamp. Several reports of Glossy Ibis, in southern Victoria, were made about the same time. In South , huge numbers were noted, particularly at parts of Lake Alexandrina. F. T. H. Smith, Kew, Victoria. 23 I 5 I 1967.

The Pink Robin at Maryborough, Victoria. Although my wife is not a keen bird watcher she takes more than a passing interest in the birds. During the latter end of the 1966 winter, her attention was drawn, by an unusual bird call, to a robin which was perched on an apple tree, a few yards from the kitchen window. She was unable to identify it as it was different to any other robin which she had seen. The statement that the colour extended from the throat to the legs pointed to it being a Flame Robin ( phoenicea), a species which is common in this district during the winter months, and which has been known to nest, in October 1960, in the dry