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Spotted Eagles vvliich can be identified refer to the larger 

 species, Aquila clanga, and that the occurrence of the Steppe 

 Buzzard (Buteo h. vulpinus) rests solely on the individual 

 killed in 18G4 by Mr. J. Clarke Hawkshaw in Wiltshire, and 

 now in the British Museum collection. In tlie same article 

 he states that the British Tawny Owl is separable from the 

 continental one by its smaller size and by the more frequent 

 occurrence of the tawny phase. It should be known as 

 Striae aluco sylvatica Shaw. Mr. Witherby also contributes 

 two short articles on the progress of the ' British Birds ' 

 marking scheme, which is rapidly recovering from the set- 

 back caused by the war, and records the fifth example of a 

 Swallow ringed as a young bird iu Stirlingshire, 27/vi./19, 

 recovered at Lake Chrissie in the Transvaal, l<'5/v./20. 



The Emu. 



[Tlie Emu : Official Organ of the Royal Australian Ornithologists' 

 Union. Vol. xx. July 1920 to April 1921.] 



As is the case in Europe, so even in far Australia the 

 great increase in the cost of printing has hampered the 

 activities of scientific societies, and the editors and secre- 

 taries of the R. A. O. U. have had a difiicult task to keep up 

 the standard of the 'Emu,' though the present volume 

 does not show much diminution in size as compared with 

 pi'cvious ones. 



The last annual meeting of the Union was held at Perth 

 in October 1920. This is the first time the Union has 

 ever met in Western Australia, and a considerable number 

 of members made the long journey of over 4000 miles from 

 Queensland and other States to attend the session. The 

 January riumber of the ' Emu ^ contains a full account of 

 the proceedings, and also a number of papers on the birds 

 of Western Australia, either the result of observations of the 

 visitors, or prepared specially for their edification. Among 

 these there is a workman-like account of the birds of the 

 Swan River district by Mr. W. B. Alexander, and a good 

 article on the birds of Dirk Hartog Island and the Feron 

 Peninsula by Mr. E. L. Whitlock, who was lucky enough to 



