The Emu 



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A Quarterly Magazine to popularize the Study and Protection of Native 

 Birds and to record Results of Scientific Research in Ornithology. 



Official Organ of the ROYAL AUSTRALASIAN ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION. 



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Editor: J. A. LEACH, D.Sc, C.M.B.O.U. 



(" Eyrecourt," Canterbury.) 



Assistant Editor: R. H. CROLL, R.A.O.U. 



(Education Department, Melbourne.) 



VOL. XVII.— 1917 18. 



^{IcC&ourrte : 

 WALKER, MAY & CO., PRINTERS, 25 MACKILLOP STREET. 



European Agents : 

 WITHERBY & CO., 326 High Holborn, London. 

 1918. 



