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speakin.^ lo public audiences and to school cliildren about Rock- 

 hampton and Mount Morj^jan Most of Mr. Alexander's lectures 

 have been delivered under the aus]Mces of the Central Queensland 

 Bird Protection Association. Many of his slides are from the 

 excellent i)hotographs taken by Mr.Gaukrodger. 



An agitation long carried on by Mr. E. J. Banfield ("The 

 P>eachc(nnber" ) of Dunk Island, has been taken up in Pirisbane. 

 with the result that the splendid Nutmeg (Torres Strait) Pigeon 

 (Myristiciz-oni hicolor) is to become totally ])rotected for an 

 indefinite i)eriod. The flights of this tine Pigeon have long been 

 one of the features of the great coast of North Queensland, and 

 it is not |)roi)osed to allow the bird to follow the Passenger 

 Pigeon r)f America into extinction. 



A. H. CHPSHOLM. 



State Secretarv. 



Reviews 



ORXITIIDPOGICAL HISTORY. 



-Ml-. A. 11. Cliisliolm. lion. State Secretary, R..\.(J.U.. Queens- 

 land, allhou,t;h a busy man, has found time to i)repare an excel- 

 lent presidential address for the Queensland Naturalists' Club. 

 The subject, an inspiration in itself, is "The Ornithological His- 

 tory of Queensland." Queensland i)Ossesses the most brilliant 

 and remarkable of birds, while the ornithological history is 

 wrapped up with the romance of the early history of the State. 

 I>y taste and talent Mr. Chisholm is well equipped to |)repare 

 such an address, which appears in The Queensland Xatitralist, 

 iii., ]). 66. It has also been issued as a "separate" in the hope 

 that other States will write their own ornithological history, and 

 thus complete the whole of Australia. 



Mr. Chisholm regretted that the following details arrived too 

 late to be included in his address: — The history of the discovery 

 of Ephtli'uuiura crocea and Zosterops <nillk'eri. in the Gulf of 

 Carpentaria district by Mr. T. A. (iulli\er, Townsville. The 

 tyi)es were divided between Count Caslelnau. Melliourne. and Dr. 

 E. P. Ramsay, Sydney, who together described them.* The 

 Count's type (cf) of the beautiful Chat went to Eurojje, and is 

 apparently lost, while the co-type ( 9 ) remains in the Aus- 

 tralian Museum, Sydney. (Uilliver was also the discoverer ot 

 PnephUa atropygiaUs, l3iggles. At that time (1875) Mr. Gul- 

 li\er held out-i)osts in the Tclegra])h Doparimenl in the Gulf 

 country. ( )n one occasion the blacks intended to raid the station 

 and kill the operator. When they arrived it was night, and Mr. 

 (lulliver was indoors playing a concertina. "Music charms the 



Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.W. I. (1876) 



