Contents - July. 1909. 



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On the Birds of NorthWest Australia. By Gregory M. 



Mathews, F.L.S., FZ.S., M.B.O.U. - - - - - - i 



Notes on the Magpie (Gymnorhina leuconota, Gld.) By 



Robert Hall, C.M.Z.S., Col. Mem. B.Q.U. - - - - - i6 



The Genus Pardalotus. By A. G. Campbell, Pomonal, Victoria 22 



Birds of Yackandandah Creek Valley, between Yackan- 



dandah and Kiewa, Victoria. By H. W. Ford, F.G.S. - 24 



Description of a New Pseudogf.rygone from South-East 

 Queensland. By W. E. Weatherill, Queensland Museum, 

 Brisbane - - - - - - - - - - - 26 



Stray Feathers. — Black-tailed Godwit, 28 ; Curlews Migrating, 28 ; Red-browed 

 Tree-creeper at Olinda, 28 ; The Return of the Birds, 29 ; Flame-breasted Robin, 

 29 ; Falcon and Bat, 29 ; Owls Retaining their Prey, 29 ; Wood-Swallows Cluster- 

 ing, 30; An Abnormal Robin, 30 ; An Interesting Census, 31; Aboriginal Names, 

 31 ; Wood-Swallows as Honey-eaters, 32 ; An Australian Aviary, 33 ; Night- Birds 

 in Combat, 33; Blue Wrens Nesting in Ivy, 34; Some Queensland Notes, 35; 

 West Devonport (Tas.) Notes, 37; An Oologist's Paradise, 39; The Pilot-Bird, 41. 



From Magazines, &C. — "Generic Names Applied to Birds During the Years 

 1901 to 1905, inclusive, with Further Additions to Waterhouse's ' Index Generum 

 Avium,' " 44 ; Tasmanian Field Naturalists' Club's Easter Camp-Out, 1909, 44 ; 

 Animals Preservation Society, 44 ; Extinction of the Lyre-Bird, 45 ; " Note on 

 Some Living Examples of Psephotus dissimUis," 46; " Notes on Albatrosses and 

 other Pelagic Birds in Australian Waters," 46 ; A Descriptive List of Birds Native 

 to Victoria," 47. 



Correspondence - - - - 48 



South Australian Ornithological Association - - - 49 



Notes and Notices 50 



Australasian Ornithologists' Union Next Annual (1909) 



Congress - - - - - - - - - - - 52 



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