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Supplementary Notes. 

 Mr. Clive E. Lord, Sandy Bay, Hobart, one of whose photo- 

 graphs of the Cormorant rookery at Cape Frederick Henry 

 illustrates this article, in a letter to a Tasmanian member of the 

 Union, states :— " The visit (at which the photographs were taken) 

 to the rookeries took place on loth and nth November, 1907. 

 On the former day we were unable to reach the nests, owmg to 

 want of suitable tackle. We returned to our base camp that 

 night, at Fond Bay, Bruni Island, and early next morning set out 

 fully equipped. The party consisted of Messrs. E. A. Elhott, R. 

 Plunkett, A. W. Swindells, and C. E. Lord, while Messrs. L. 

 Rodway and Geoffrey Smith, author of 'A Naturalist in 

 Tasmania,' accompanied the party to the edge of the cliff. The 

 cliffs are about 500 to 600 feet in height, and for the first two- 

 thirds of the descent the going was fairly easy. The slope, although 

 steep, was covered with tussocks and mesembryanthemum. 

 About 150 to 200 feet above water-level the slope ends and the 

 cliffs drop almost sheer down, while on the rocky ledges, from a 

 few feet above water-level, the nests are built on every available 

 spot. After descending as far as we could go, we selected a suitable 

 spot, and prepared the ropes and other appliances for the descent 

 to the ledges, whereon hundreds of Cormorants could be discerned 

 on their nests. One of our number, A. W. Swindells, descended to 

 the ledges below, while the three remaining members adjusted the 

 ropes, &c., to ensure his safety. After spending a profitable time 

 at the rookeries, the whole party safely returned to the summit of 

 the chffs." 



Lewin's *' Birds of New South Wales.*' 



By Gregory M. Mathews, F.R.S. (Ed.), F.L.S., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., 



R.A.O.U. 

 Ix The Emu* some notes on Lewin's "Birds of New Holland" 

 (1808) were pubhshed. These created a httle interest ; friendly 

 criticism from Mr. E. A. Petherick was offered, and has been 

 accepted. I now agree that T. Bensley was the printer of the 

 letterpress, as suggested by Mr. Petherick, and not the author, 

 as I had contended. Bensley's address was " Bolt Court," not 

 " Bold Court," as it was printed in that article. 



I made the statement :— " The plates in this work were the first 

 natural history subjects executed in Austraha. In fact, only one 

 set of engravings was done before— some views on copper (the 

 copper being taken from a ship's bottom)." These misstatements 

 were corrected by Mr. Petherick as follows :— " Lewin previously 

 produced a work on the insects of New South Wales (London, 

 1805), containing 18 plates, dated 1803 and 1804. These were 

 the earliest engravings executed in Australia. The set of 

 ngravings on copper from a ship's bottom (by Preston) were 



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