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ledges his indebtedness for the bulk of the information relative 

 to the land-birds of Norfolk Island contained in his several 

 papers. The particulars relative to the Lord Howe birds were 

 for the most part furnished by Messrs. R. Etheridge, J. A 

 Thorpe, and T. Whitelegge, who paid a visit of investigation to 

 that island in 1887, on behalf of the Trustees of the Australian 

 Museum. 



In his work on the 'Nests and Eggs of the Birds of Australia,' 

 published in 1901, A. J. Campbell makes occasional reference to 

 the Lord Howe or Norfolk Island habitat of certain species 

 common to the mainland also. 



In the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South 

 Wales (Vol. ii., 2nd series, p.678, 1887), Dr. Ramsay described 

 the eggs of three species of sea-birds from " Lord Howe's Island," 

 viz. : Sterna (Onychoprion) fuliginosa, Procelsterna (Anous) 

 cinerea, and Sulci cyanops. 



There is also an interesting paper by Dr. Ramsay entitled 

 " Notes on the Zoology of Lord Howe's Island " (Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 N.S.Wales, Vol. vii., p. 86, 1882). This paper is principally 

 devoted to the avifauna, and a Table of the birds found on the 

 island is appended, showing the occurrence of the same genera or 

 species in New Zealand and New South Wales respectively. 



There are other descriptions of, or references to, the birds 

 found in these islands and their eggs, scattered through the files 

 of the Ibis, Proceedings of the Zoological Society (Lond.), Pro- 

 ceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, the British 

 Museum Catalogue of Birds' Eggs, and other scientific publica- 

 tions. There is a paper on the Birds of Norfolk Island by Herr 

 A. von Pelzeln (Sitzungsber. Wien. Akad. xli. 1860, pp.319-332), 

 no copy of which is obtainable in Sydney. 



In the following pages, references are given to most of the 

 publications where mention is made of the occurrence, at the 

 Lord Howe or Norfolk Island Groups, of species not peculiar to 

 those groups. Of the peculiar species references are given to 

 the most important articles, descriptive of the birds or their eggs, 

 but these references do not pretend to be in any way complete. 



