Voi.^xviii.-j g^y^ Protection. 315 



if there were any Ducks in the car. Not receiving a satisfactory 

 reply, the car was taken to Quay-street, and there were a dozen 

 Ducks in the car and some Pigeons. Moore said he had shot 

 three Ducks, and Fox two ; the balance, it was stated, by 

 Yaamba boys. The complaint had been made by Mr. Maloney, 

 secretary of the Native Birds' Association, and there had been 

 several prosecutions, but they did not appear to have had much 

 effect, and he would ask for an increase in the penalty. 



The Police Magistrate (Mr. Hishon) imposed a penalty in each 

 case of ;^i, with 6s. costs of court and £2 2s. professional costs, 

 in default 14 days' imprisonment. 



Additions to the Library. 



By W. B. Alexander, M.A., Hon. Librarian. 

 I. — Books. 



" The Birds of Australia." G. M. Mathews. Vols, i.-vi. 

 (Presented by Mr. H. L. White.) 



This most valuable and generous gift was acknowledged in 

 the last number of The Emu, where a full notice appeared. 



" Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds." A. J. Campbell. 

 (Presented by the author.) 



The Union is greatly indebted to Mr. Campbell for his present 

 of a specially-bound copy of his well-known work, in two volumes. 

 The book is so familiar to all Australian ornithologists that a 

 review would be superfluous. The copy bears the following 

 inscription : — " Presented to the Royal Australasian Ornith- 

 ologists' Union, and in Undying Memory of Those Members who 

 fell in the Great World-War, by its Fifth President and Honorary 

 Member, the Author. January — the ' year of peace ' — igig." 



" A Monograph of the Pheasants." W. Beebe. Vol. i. From 

 the pubhshcrs, Withcrby and Co., 326 High Holborn, 

 London, England. 



There is little doubt that this is the most magnificent book on 

 birds yet produced, and it is an undoubted tribute to the 

 excellence of Messrs. Witherby's work that a book published 

 under the auspices of the New York Zoological Society should 

 have been entrusted to this English firm. Moreover, the majority 

 of the beautiful coloured illustrations in this first volume are by 

 the well-known British artists, (t. E. Lodge and A. Thorburn. 



The Pheasants rival, if they do not surpass, all other famiUes 

 of birds in the brilliance and magnificence of their plumage ; yet 

 in their native haunts most of them are difficult to study, owing 

 to the thick jungles and mountainous regions which they commonly 

 frequent. The author devoted 17 months to the study of the 



