MEMORANDUM. 



The stock of the First Edition of the " Catalogue of the 

 Australian Birds" Pt. I, Accipitres — Pt. II, Striges) 

 having become exhausted, a Second Edition was 

 authorised by the Board of Trustees. The revision, with 

 the addition of later references and facts, was entrusted 

 to Air. A. J. North, Ornithologist to the Australian 

 ]Museum, but he has avoided altering the original matter 

 as much as possible, under the circumstances. 



R. ETHERIDGE, Junr., 



Curator. 



Australian Museum, 



Sydney, January, 1898. 



