Part II. of Volume IV. is issued herewith. It contains the Australian representatives of the 



Orders Columb.b, Gallin>e, Hemipodii, and the Sub-order Pedionomi. 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. Dyer, Miss A. E. Potter 



being responsible for hand colouring the Plate of Eggs in the coloured copies. Part III. is in 



the press. ' 



R. ETHERIDGE, 



Australian Museum, Sydney. Curator. 



5t]i Jnne, 1913. 



