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as far inland as Kalgoorlie, has become very rare in the 

 central districts. It is very shy, frequenting dense under- 

 growth, and is not easy to Hush. If put up it rises suddenly 

 and flies rather rapidly for a short distance, dropping into 

 thick scrub at the first opportunity. — G. C. S.~\ 



Drom.kis xov.e-hollandi.f. Lath. 



Dromcaus nova-hollandia: Math. p. 5. 



a-c. £ ? etjuv. Parker's Range, 1 1th— 1 8th Aug. 



d, e. Ad. Kurrawang, 27th Sept. 



f, f/. Ad. Laverton, 17th Oct. 



Iris clear hazel or buff yellow ; bare skin on the head, neck 

 and thighs bluish-white ; bill olivaceous-black ; legs dusky 

 olivaceous-black. 



[The Emu is widely distributed throughout the south- 

 western, central and western divisions, being particularly 

 numerous in the interior. It frequents open Hats and 

 scrubby plains and is rare in the forest-districts. The 

 spotted form, D. irroratus Bartl., I believe to be founded on 

 immature birds. — G. ('. S. ] 



VI. — Obituary : — Thomas Southwell, Prof. Giglioli, 

 and Dr. Bowdier Sharpe. 



A veritable link with the past generation of Norfolk natu- 

 ralists was the late Thomas Southwell of Norwich, who died 

 on the 5th of September, 1909, in the seventy-ninth year 

 of his age. In the first volume of the Trans. Norf. & Norw. 

 Nat. Soc. he wrote, " I have myself talked with men who have 

 taken the eggs of the Avocet and Black-tailed Godwit, and 

 who have seen the Bustard at large in its last stronghold. 

 The Bittern was so common in Feltwell Fen that a keeper 

 there has shot five in one day, and his father used to have 

 one roasted for dinner every Sunday." Again, " I have 

 found the eggs of Montagu's Harrier, and know those who 

 remember the time when the Hen Harrier and Short-eared 

 Owl bred regularly in Roydon Fen, and who have taken the 



