Vol. I 

 1904 



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and it would be well if more bird-lovers accepted the advice — 

 " Go thou and do likewise." The author of the paper is Mr. 



A. J. Campbell. 



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Bird-Lore. — The frontispiece in the March-April issue of this 

 magazine (vol. vi., No. 2) is a coloured plate of two species of 

 Warbler (Wilson's and the Canadian), executed by Mr. L. A. 

 Fuertes. A subsequent coloured plate depicts two other species 

 of this family (the Black-throated Green and the Golden-cheeked). 

 Many interesting bird photos, (and notes) are given. In the 

 editorial article it is said : — " A bird's economic value .... 

 is not to be ascertained by ' common observation.' . . . Nor 

 can the best-equipped observer hope to reach satisfactory con- 

 clusions merely from observing the bird out of doors. This is 

 an important side of his work, but must be supplemented by 

 detailed stomach analyses wherein he avails himself of the 

 services of specialists in other departments of science — entomology, 

 botany, mammalogy, &c." The Audubon Society's chairman 

 hardly seems optimistic on this occasion over the state of matters 



re bird protection. 



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The Geelong Naturalist. — After many vicissitudes for thirteen 

 years, the organ of the Geelong Field Naturalists' Club has been 

 revived in the shape of a quarterly journal, with which has 

 been incorporated The Wombat, under the hon. editorship of 

 Mr. John J. Cary. No. i (March, 1904) of the second series is 

 to hand, and the local club is to be congratulated on endeavouring 

 to maintain a journal of its own. In these days, when so-called 

 " law of priority " is so much worshipped by naturalists, it is 

 just as well to have one's "proceedings" in type, although it 

 would be difficult to prove that priority does not really count 

 from the time when a paper is read and accepted before a pro- 

 perly constituted meeting of a club or association, notwith- 

 standing the paper and facts are only recorded in the official 

 " minute book." The present issue of The Geelong Naturalist 

 contains " District Bird Notes " — brief field observations of half 

 a dozen common species — by " G. F. B.," and a note on the 

 White-browed Wood-Swallow by Mr. W. Shaw. 



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The Avicultural Magazine. — In the number for April, 1904 

 (vol. ii.. No. 6, p. 179) Mr. Reginald Phillipps deals with the 

 White-throated Ground-Thrush (of which an admirable coloured 

 plate by Mr. Gronvold is given), and chronicles its habits in a 

 way that should be most valuable to ornithologists. " Turtle 

 Dove Hybrids and their Fertility" (Mr. T. H. Newman, F.Z.S.) 

 raises some problems which have a bearing both on these birds 

 and some of our own ; and in " Notes on Parrakeets " Mr. John 

 Sergeant records amongst other interesting items that many 

 of these birds do not seem to be affected by any severity of 



