2 30 The Colouycd Plate. \_2lU 



assijiiilis (North).* Members cannot fail to appreciate the pretty 

 poses and realistic colouration of the birds by Mr. H. Gronvold 

 and Messrs. Mintern Bros., artist and printers respectively. The 

 best thanks of the Union are also due to our member, Mr. D. 

 Seth-Smith, F.Z.S., who most enthusiastically undertook the 

 supervision of the production of the plate in London, and from 

 whom the following interesting note has been received : — " I 

 showed the skins to Dr. Bowdler Sharpe the other day, and we 

 compared them with those in the National Collection. He 

 considers AI. eli::abetJicB and M. zvhitei to be good species, but 

 cannot see where M. assimilis differs from M. lambertiy 



Injustice to Mr. North, it may be mentioned that it is quite 

 possible that Dr. Sharpe's reference may have been a skin of 

 the inland or western form o{ laiiibcrti, which it is contended is 

 assiiiii/is, differing in shade of colouring from the true lamberti 

 from the eastern coast. 



Coloured Figure Fund.— Donations, &c. 



Proceeds of public lecture on " Islands of Bass Strait," ;!^io; 

 Mr. T. Carter (W.A.), los. ; Miss M. Brumby (Tasmania), 5s. ; 

 Mr. Tindall (Vict.), 5s. ; Mr. T. B. Campbell Ford (Queensland), 

 5s. ; Col. Legge (Tasmania), 5s. ; Mr. Geo. Graham (Vict.), 5s. 



About Members. 



Mr. Tom Carter, having relinquished pastoral interests at Point 

 Cloates, Western Australia, is returning to England. After a 

 residence of 13 years in the region of the North-West Cape, Mr. 

 Carter's field notes, which he is now systematically writing up 

 for The Emu, should be extremely valuable. 



Mr. Robert Hall has been elected a Corresponding Member of 

 the Zoological Society (London). Mr. Hall left on the 3rd 

 February for an extended trip to the northern hemisphere. 

 Probably the most important part of his work will be in 

 Eastern Siberia, where some interesting notes on migratory 

 Australian birds may be gleaned. He proposes journeying to 

 Europe by the Siberian Transcontinental Railway. Mr. Hall's 

 companion will be Mr. R. E. Trebilcock, of Geelong. 



At the Twentieth Congress of the American Ornithologists' 

 Union held in Washington, D.C., i7th-20th November last, Mr. 

 A. J. Campbell was elected a Corresponding Fellow of that Union. 

 Mr. A, J. North was similarly elected. The other Australians 



* Vict. Nat., vol. xviii.. p. 29 (1901). 



