Vol. 11.1 ., 



1903 J About Members. g.'^f 



upon whom this distinction had been previously conferred are 

 Sir Walter BuUer, Colonel Legge, and Dr. E. P. Ramsay. 



Some ornithologists, unlike prophets, have honour in their own 

 country. The following lines to Mr. A. W. Milligan appeared 

 in a Western Australian journal : — 



Sonnet ; Dedicated to the Author of an Article on Western 

 Australian Birds in the Government Year-Book. 

 Have I, then, in this fair land dwelt so long, 



Yet knew so little of its free domain, 



Of those bright fairy-dwellers whose refrain 

 Fills the eternal woods with mirth and song ? 

 Was I blindfolded like the piteous throng 



Whose souls are poisoned by the love of gain, 



Oblivious of the joys that give no pain. 

 And of the pleasures that inflict no wrong? 

 Thou, one of that small, solitary band. 



To whom the secrets that in Nature dwell 

 Yield knowledge, and the beauties of each land 



Are a fresh revelation to dispel 

 Our darkness, in this prospect newly scanned 



Hast shown a glimpse of Eden's long-lost spell I 



Argonaut. 



List of New Members of the Australasian 

 Ornithologists' Union. 



(For original list see Einu.^ vol. i., pp. 157-160.) 



Bradly, J. F., Customs House, Melbourne. 



Bayliss, Miss, Meadstone, Avoca, Tasmania. 



Butler, A. L., Murray-street, Hobart, Tasmania. 



Bryant, Dr. H. W., Williamstown, Victoria. 



Cleland, Dr. J. B., Parkside, Adelaide, S.A. 



Grossman, Alan F., Fremantle, W.A. 



Glouston, T. H., Derby, Tasmania. . 



Dennis, G. L., Eeyeuk, Kolora, Victoria. 



Harrison, M. W., Newtown, Tasmania. 



Hope, Dr. W. W., Golac, Victoria. 



Hutchinson, Frank, jun., Napier, N.Z. 



Leverkuhn, Dr. Paul, G.M.Z.S., &c., Bulgaria, Europe. 



Mellor, Mrs. J., Holmfirth, Fulham, S.A. 



Morgan, Dr. A. M., Angas-street, Adelaide, S.A. 



M'GOWAN, Wm., Gity Park, Launceston, Tasmania. 



Oberholsen. H. G., Department Agriculture, Washington, U.S.A. 



Ryan, Gecil, Bradshaw's Greek, Tasmania. 



Stephen, W. J., Robinson's-road, Auburn, Victoria. 



Smedley, J. H., Townsville, Queensland. 



Smith, D. Seth, F.Z.S., Addiscombe, Surrey, England. 



Thompson, H. G., Frederick-street, Launceston, Tasmania. 



Thomson, Mrs. J. R. M., St. Ronans, Essendon, Victoria. 



Tait, G. F., Albert-road, Albert Park, Victoria. 



Whitney, H. H., Victoria-street, Williamstown, Victoria. 



Weindorfer, G., Austro-Hungarian Consulate, Melbourne, Victoria 



Wace, R. H., The Residency, Onslow, W.A. 



