Notes on the occurrence in Tasmania of the "Southern stone plover" (Edicnemus grallarius)

The first published list of the birds of Tasmania was printed in the Proceedings of the Royal Society in Vol. III., 1854, page 142, by the Rev. T. J. Ewing, of New Town. In that list Mr. Ewing gives the numbers as follows :— Families, 28.
Genera, 114. Species, 169. In 1886 Proceedings, an interesting paper, by Colonel W. V. Legge, R.A., E.Z.S., is published, entitled " Systematic List of Tasmanian Birds." Since the above was printed he following birds have been sent to the Museum,being hitherto unrecorded for Tasmania I give them in the order as they reached me — (1.) The Semi-palmated Goose, Anseranas melanoleuca (2.) The Australian Drongo (3.) Blue-billed Duck of Australia, Erismatura australis. The latest addition to the avifaune of Tasmania are a pair of fine speciments of the Southern Stone Plover (Edicnemus grallarius).