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popular lecture during the Sydney session has been regained by 

 Mr. Robt. Hall's lecture at the Adelaide. The hon. treasurer 

 Mr. F. P, Godfrey) desires to acknowledge with thanks the 

 following donations to the fund : — Miss M. Brumby, 5s. ; Admiral 

 Bridges, 6s. ; Dr. E. A. D'Ombrain, 5s. ; Mr. G. Graham, 5s. ; 

 Mr. J. S. Gray, 20s.; Mr. E. J. Howard, 12s.; Mr. T. Iredale, 

 los. 6d. ; Mr. A. F. Smith, 5s. ; Mr. Thos. Tindale, 5s. 



Big Gun Firing and Bird Destruction. — The following 

 complaint by " Incubator " appeared in Tlie Argus of the 

 23/11/05: — "On Saturday last I had 100 duck eggs in an 

 incubator; 15 came out, all the rest were tapping and ready. A 

 big gun was fired at Williamstown, causing sudden death to all 

 the tappers. Could not this waste of ammunition be postponed 

 until the season is over, say, end of February .' " If the con- 

 cussion causes such havoc amongst domestic fowls, how will the 

 native birds that breed in the neighbourhood of the coast fare ? 



Publications Received. 



Auk, The, XXII., Nos. 3 and 4, July-Oct., 1905. 

 Avicultural Magazine, The, N.S., Nos. 7-12, May-Oct., 1905. 



Bayern, OrnitJiologische GesellscJiaft in, Verhandlungen, IV., 

 1903. 



Bird-Lore, VII., Nos. 3-5, May-Oct , 1905. 

 Condor, The, VII., Nos. 3-5, May-Oct., 1905. 



Fourth International Co7igress of Ornithologists, 1905. (Cam- 

 bridge University Press.) Pamphlets :— (i) Effects of Insularity 

 (H. Gadow) ; (,2) Leguat's Giant Bird (Alfred Newton) ; 

 (2) Books, &c., exhibited by permission of committee. 



Geelong Naturalist, The, Second Series, II., No. i, Sept., 1905. 



Linnean Society of N.SAV., Proceedings, XXX., Parts i, 2 

 (with Supplement). 



Miinchen, Ornithologischer Verein, Jahresbericht, III., 1901-2. 



Oberholser, Harry C., Birds Collected by Dr. W. L. Abbot in 

 the Kilimanjaro Region, East Africa. (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 

 No. 1,411, pp. 823-936.) 



OrnitJiologisches faJirbucJi, XV., Nos. 1-6, Jan.-Dec, 1904, and 

 XVI., Nos. 1-4, Jan.-Aug., 1905. 



US. Department of Agriculture. Close Seasons for Game in 

 the United States and Canada, 1905. 



Zoologist, The, P^ourth Series, IX., Nos. 101-104, May-Aug., 

 1905. 



