254 Correstondence. VntlT 



with children and nature-lovers of older .i,n-o\vth. Tt is well illus- 

 trated by C. E. Tames. 143 pages. 11 full-page illustrations. 

 Price, 5/-. 



The Fernland Story [3ook, edited by Charles Barrett, and con- 

 taining articles by l)onald MaccUmald, Charles Barrett. Edith 

 Howes, Helen Trego, "The l>eachcomber," ]\Iiss J. A. Fletcher, 

 Mary Bruce Grant, and Maud Isabel Peacocke. 87 pp. This 

 book is sure to be a popular favourite. Five coloured plates, 7 

 toned y)lates, and many drawings. Price 7/6. 



Children are fortunate to have available for prizes and gifts 

 such excellent books as the four under notice. The publishers 

 have done their part well. The ])rinting is clear, the binding is 

 good, and the books are credital)ly i)roduced. 



Correspondence 



To the Editors of "The Emu.'' 

 Sirs, — With regard to the origin of the name "Nullarbor," I 

 showed the copy of the last Efiiu to Professor Sir Edgeworth 

 David. As is well known, he recently spent some time in Central 

 Australia. He was very interested in the two paragraphs con- 

 cerning the subject, but said he was afraid that the gentlemen 

 who wrote them were mistaken. His party enquired into the 

 origin of the word, and discovered that it was derived from the 

 two Latin words "X^ullus" and "Arbor." The plain was named 

 by Delissa, who surveyed the boundary between South Australia 

 and W^estern Australia. — I am, vours etc.. 



GEO. V. SCAMMELL. 



7'o the Editors of "The Emu." 



Sirs, — Messrs. Kinghorn and Cayley's very fine paper on the 

 -Storm Petrels i)ublished in the Emu for October last is a good 

 example of the useful work which may be done by assembling 

 available skins and instituting close comparisons. In the case of 

 most Australian l)irds the type skins are not available to local 

 students, and the action taken by the authors of the paper tpioted 

 in obtaining from M. Berlioz a sketch and notes with reference 

 to Y'ieillot's type of Frc(/etta t/rollaria was the nearest solution of 

 the difficulty. 



I think it necessary, however, to i)()int out that by some over- 

 sight the authors have omitted any reference to my connection 

 with some of the skins dealt with by them. 



In October, 1910, Mr. (now Professor) T. Harvey Johnston 

 gave me a bird which he had i)icked up at Lord Howe Island, 

 and i)laced in si)irit. I had a skin i>repared by Mr. Robert Grant, 

 of the Australian Museum, and I identified the bird. The label 

 attached to the skin is in my handwriting as follows: — "fre(fctta 

 (jraUaria.y\c\]\<){. Loc. Lord i lowc Island. Date, 10th October, 



