Ihe accompanying part of the Australian Museum Catalogue of 



" Nests and Eggs of Birds found breeding in Australia and Tas- 

 mania " (Vol. iv, part 5) completes the work. 



Part I. of Volume IV. is issued herewith. It contains the Famih'es Ibidid/e and Plataleid^ 

 of the Order Platale*; ; the Families .Vrdeid.k and Ciconiid,'e, helonginj,' to the Order 

 Herodiones; and the Sub-families Cygnin/E, Anseranatin^, Plectropterin.e, Cereopsin.*;, 

 Chenonettin/e, Anatix.*, P'uligulin/e and Erimasturin^ of the Family Anatid^, which 

 comprise the representatives of the Order Chexomorph.i-; in Australia. As in the previous 

 Parts the illustrations of birds are reproduced from drawings made by the late Mr. Neville 

 Cayley. The figures of eggs, which are of the natural size, were reproduced by the heliotype 

 process at the Government Printing Office, from photographs of the specimens taken under the 

 direction of the Government Printer and the supervision of Mr. A. E. EIver; Miss A. E. Potter 

 being responsible for hand-colouring the Plates of Eggs in the coloured copies. The first thirty- 

 two pages and the Systematic Contents of Vol. III. were printed off during Mr. North's 

 absence in Victoria, consi quently he had no opportunity of revising the proofs. Part II. is in 

 the press. 



R. ETHERIDGE, 



, ,, , Curator. 



.Austkall^.n Museum, Sydney, 



22Hd Janmi'y, 1913. 



