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indigenous birds of New Zealand, are mentioned the following 

 Australian species : — Nettion castaneuni (Teal), PJialacrocorax 

 sidcirostris (Little Black Cormorant), Sula sula (Booby), Sula 

 cyaiiops (Masked Gannet), Pelccamis coiispicillaUis (Pelican), 

 CercJineis cencJiroides (Kestrel), ChcEtiira cimdacuta (Spine-tailed 

 Swift), Cucidus saturatus {intermedins) (Oriental Cuckoo), and 

 Petnvca vittata (Dusky Robin of Tasmania, but admitted only 

 provisionally, and correctly so), Fulica australis (Coot), Larus 

 nov(2-]iollandi(e (Silver Gull), Limonites ruficollis (Little Stint), 

 Glottis nebulariiis {Gr&ens\\?iX\k), A ncylochilus subarqiKxtns (Curlew 

 Sandpiper), Galtijiago australis (Snipe), Stiltia isabella (Pratin- 

 cole), Plegadis falcincellus (Glossy Ibis), Ardea cinerea (Grey or 

 Common Heron), Anous stolidus (Noddy). 



Sir Walter Buller's last paragraphs in his great work, written 

 under Glaucopis ivilsoni (Blue-wattled Crow), are : — 



" The four specimens, dressed, as I have mentioned above, 

 with loving hands, and prepared with so much labour, were, in 

 point of fact, the foundation of a collection which in after years 

 assumed important proportions, and was, on the publication of 

 my first edition, in 1872-3, presented by me to the colony, when 

 it straightway became the ' type collection ' in the Colonial 

 Museum. This was done in recognition of the generous assist- 

 ance accorded to me by the Stafford Government in the pro- 

 secution of my scientific work. 



" My second collection was sold by me, on the publication of 

 my second edition, in 1888, to the Hon. Walter Rothschild, for 

 the Tring Museum — on the assessment of Professor Newton, 

 of Cambridge — for ;^i,ooo; and my third collection, on the 

 completion of this 'Supplement,' to the Carnegie Museum, 

 Pittsburg, U.S.A., for a similar sum, the price having been 

 arrived at after a careful valuation by Dr. Bowdler-Sharpe, the 

 assistant keeper in charge of the ornithological collections in the 

 Ikitish Museum. All three collections will therefore be avail- 

 able for the student of the future, when many, if not most, of the 

 species will have passed away for ever. I think these facts are 

 worth recording, seeing that the collections relate to a fauna 

 characterised by Professor Newton as the ' comparatively little 

 changed relic and representative of the early fauna of much 

 wider range.' In a private letter to myself this same high 

 authority observes : — ' The New Zealand avifauna is undoubtedly 

 the most interesting avifauna in the world.'" 



["Wild Life in Australia." By W. II. Dudley Le Souiif, C.M.Z.S., M.B.O.U., 

 &c., Director Zoological Clardens, Melbourne. With 170 original photographs by 

 the author and others. Christchurch, Wellington, and Dunedin, N.Z. ; Melbourne, 

 and London : Whitcombe and Tombs Limited.] 



" Wild Life in Australia " is a book written for " the millions," 

 but especially for the lover of the open field and of nature. It 



