The following amendments should be made to:

Page 89, Column 1, List of animals killed . . . Last line; 1 mammal every 35 km should read 31 km.

Page 89, Column 2, Lines 8 to 19 should be amended as follows;

The results . . . 30 kilometres. Magpies were the commonest animal found dead, being 36% of the total

killed in spring. However, the autumn count of dead magpies was only 19% of the total at that time. When

both surveys were combined magpies were 45 % of the birds killed. Vestjens found for the whole of his survey

magpies were 37% of the birds killed. While .....autumn. However, in the autumn there were more mammal

predators and scavengers killed. Perhaps .........animals.

Among Stubble Quail Coturnix novaezealandiae pectoralis collected in late summer
and autumn 1968 and 1969 in the Mudgee district, N.S.W. there were young birls still
showing some juvenile plumage and which were apparently breeding or had done so.
Morris and Kurtz (1977) stated that when heavy rain in this district produced a growth
of grass on the stubble fields at a rate faster than stock could eat it down, the number
of button quail Turnix spp. built up. They also observed this for Stubble Quail (pers.
comm.).

Methods are given on how to preserve birds found dead so that they may be sent to
the State museum and provide useful scientific information.

We recommend using culmen and tarsal lengths to indicate sex in Woodhens. For
dried museum skins a function 1.8 tarsus + culmen = 135,. using measurements in mm,
separates females (below) from males (above) the value. However. for live Woodhens,
1.7 tarsus+ culmen = 141 is the function.

Detailed descriptions of the juvenile, immature and adult plumages are given based on information
from captive birds and museum specimens. Young birds can be sexed by the wing coverts over the
patagium, which are black in males and black with buff or white tips in females.