PROTECT OUR BIRDS. 



Copies of this pamphlet will be forwarded to every public school and institute 

 throughout the State, in order that it may be widely read. To acquire a fondness 

 for bird life and a knowledge of those that are protected is a long way towards 

 preventing their destruction. 



A copy of this pamphlet will also be placed in the hands of every police officer, 

 to assist in the enforcement of the law. 



The public also is appealed to with a view of general interest being taken to save 

 the already small numbers of our feathered friends. 



Thanks are tendered to the Museum authorities for allowing photographs to be 

 taken of the birds, to the Photo.-lithograph Department for the illustrations, 

 and to Mr. Alfred G. Edquist, of the Education Department, for describing the 

 birds. Without these invaluable services it would not have been possible to issue 

 the pamphlet. 



T. DUFFIELD, Intelligence Officer. 



Crown Lands Office, Adelaide, May 1st, 1910. 



ACXXOWLEDGMENT. 



In describing the birds and eggs figured in this book as much as possible was 

 done from the actual birds and eggs. My thanks are due to the Director (Professor 

 E. C. Stirling, C.M.G., M.D.), through whose courtesy the collections at the South 

 Australian Museum- were placed at my disposal ; also to Mr. A. H. C. Zietz, F.L.S., 

 C.M.Z.S., Sub-Director, and Mr. F. R. Zietz, for assistance and valuable advice. 

 I wish to acknowledge my indebtedness to Captain S. A. White for his kindness 

 in lending specimens of eggs of the rarer birds, in order that Mr. C. Wall, the Govern- 

 ment lithographic artist, might portray them accurately ; and also to Mr. J. W. 

 Mellor, Secretary to the South Australian Ornithological Association. 



Use was made of the following books, which proved very useful and provided 

 valuable information : — " Handbook of the Birds of Australia," Gould ; " Nests 

 and Eggs of Australian Birds," by A. J. Campbell, Col. Mem. B.O.U. ; " The Hand- 

 list of the Birds of Australia," by G. M. Mathews, F.L.S., F.R.S., M.B.O.U. 



A. G. EDQUIST. 



