Despite being ornithological journals, The Emu, the Australian Bird 
Bander, the Australian Bird Watcher, Birds, Australian Birds, Corella, 
the South Australian Ornilhologist and the Sunbird all contain numerous 
valuable observations on reptiles and frogs. These are mostly hidden 
amongst ornithological observations, and = are, for the most part, 
inacessible to herpetologists by normal data-relrieval methods. Three 
species indices have been published to the Fmu, covering volumes to 1960 
(Wells, 1922; McGill, 1953, 1962) and one to the South Australian 
Ornithologist (Condon et al., 1975), covering volumes to 1971, but these 
only covered birds. Individual volume indices to the other journals are 
similarly restricted in scope. The following bibliography included most 
of the herpetological citations in these eight journals to the end of 
1985. Publication details of each journal are given in Table l. In 
general, I have excluded those papers that note only "lizards", "snakes" 
or "reptiles" at a particular mainland locality (although such data on 
islands is included), that only cite a previously published reference to 
reptiles (although citations from newspaper articles are included) or 
that are only supposition (e.g., the frequent suggestion that goannas are 
probably a major predator). 
In the cross-indices, I have attempted, where possible, to identify 
the reptile and amphibian species involved on the basis of the common 
names or descriptions originally used. Such identifications, other than 
mere updates in nomenclature, are in square parentheses. Reptile and 
amphibian nomenclature in general follows Cogger (1986), with scincid 
generic taxonomy following Greer (1979), while bird nomenclature follows 
Schodde et al. (1977). The terms tortoises and turtles refer to 
freshwater and sea turtles respectively. References to diet etc., that 
merely state the inclusion of reptiles, snakes or lizards without further 
details are separated from more specific references by parentheses. 
REFERENCES 
1. Abbott, I. 1978. Seabird Islands No. 55 Breaksea Island, King George 
Sound, Western Australia. Corella 2: 24-25. 
2. Abbott, I. 1978. Seabird Islands No. 56 Michaelinas Island, King 
George Sound, Western Australia. Corella 2: 26-27. 
3. Abbott, I. 1978. Seabird Islands No. 5&8 Seal Island, King George 
Sound, Western Australia. Corella 2: 30-31. 
4. Abbott, I. 1978. Seabird Islands No. 59 Mistaken Island, King George 
Sound, Western Australia. Corella 2: 32-33. 
5. Abbott, I. 1978. Seabird Islands No. 63 Lancelin Island, Western 
Australia. Corella 2: 40-42. 
6. Abbott, I. 1981. Seabird Islands No. 106 Mondrain Island, Archipelago 
of the Recherche, Western Australia. Corella 5: 60-61. 
7. Abbott, I. 1981. Seabird Islands No. 108 Bald Island, Western 
Australia. Corella 5: 64-65. 
8. Abbott, I. 1981. Seabird Islands No. 110 Sandy Island, Western 
Australia. Corella 5: 69-70. 
9. Abbott, I. 1982. Birds recorded on 22 tropical islands of Western 
Australia. Corella 6: 119-122. 
10. Alexander, W.B. 1922. Notes on the fauna of King Island from the 
logbooks of the "Lady Nelson". Emu 21: 318-319. 
ll. Alexander, W.B. 1923. A week on the upper Barcoo, central Queensland. 
Emu 23: 82-95. 
12. Alexander, W.B. 1924. Sonnerat’s voyage to New Guinea. Emu 23: 
299-305. 
13. Alexander, W.B. 1926. Notes on a visit to north Queensland. Emu 25: 
245-260. 
14. Anon. 1904. Bird "charmed" by snake. Emu 3: 241. 
15. Anon. 1908. Reviews. Emu 7: 201-205. 
16. Anon. 1912. Working excursion and camp-out. Emu ll: 162-166. 
17. Anon. 1914. Order Picariae, Sub-order Halcyones, Family Aloedinidae, 
