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Black-faced Wood-Swallow and of the Red-throated Thickhead from 

 Central Australia. Mr. J. W. Mellor exhibited a clutch each of the eggs of 

 the Sooty and Hills Cro'.v-Shrikes, from Tasmania, showing the difference 

 in characteristic markings of these two species. Dr. R. H. Pulleine 

 exhibited photographs of numerous spiders which form good food for the 

 Crow-Shrike family. 



Notes and Notices. 



Popularizing Ornithology. — Recently two members of 

 the A.O.U. gave popular lectures pertaining to birds, (i.) Mr. 

 A. H. E. Mattlngley, C.M.Z.S., read a thoughtful and interesting 

 paper before the Victorian Fish Protection Society and Anglers' 

 Club on '•' Some Points of Similarity in Birds and Fishes," which 

 was printed in The North Melbourne Courier. (2.) Mr. A. H. 

 Chisholm gave a paper, entitled " Save the Birds,"' before the 

 Star of Maryborough (Vic.) Tent, I.O.R. This paper, which 

 appealed strongly to the humanitarian side of the author's 

 audience, was printed in The Maryborough Advertiser. 



A Handbook of Tasmanian Birds. — Mr. Frank M. Littler, 

 F.E.S, proposes to issue shortly a " Handbook" on the birds of 

 Tasmania, which he hopes will be acceptable to students as well 

 to ordinary bird-lovers. The sub-headings under each species 

 will be ■' Male," " Female," "Young" (where possible), "Nest," 

 " Eggs," " Breeding Season," " Geographical Distribution," and 

 " Remarks " (short field notes). As a useful appendix there will 

 be extracts from the Tasmanian Game Protection /^^/, giving the 

 close seasons and schedules of wholly and partly protected birds. 

 Against the names of those birds which appear in the wholly 

 protected schedule will be placed an asterisk in the book, so 

 that it can be seen at a glance, when going through the 

 same, whether a bird is protected or not. The shooting season 

 of all game birds will be shown in the first sentence of the 

 "Remarks." 



Mr. James Buckland on the 6th of ]\Iay gave an exhibition 

 of lantern slides (including a set of 12 donated by the A.O.U.) 

 before the Linnean Society of London. In a few prefatory 

 remarks Mr. Buckland pointed out the perilous condition into 

 which many rare and beautiful species of 'oirds have been 

 allowed to drift, and that immediate legislation was required 

 if they were to be saved from extermination. The lantern slides 

 exhibited the economic value of birds to man ; the slaughter of 

 Gulls, Terns, &c., along the Atlantic seaboard of the United States; 

 Snowy Herons on Florida Keys Reservation ; patrol boats, and 

 grave of the murdered warden : home-life of the Egret in 

 Florida; birds of Oregon, California, Venezuela, New Zealand, 

 &c. ; nest of the Bird-of-Paradise, the Emu, &c. ; male Lyre- 

 Bird, showing its lyrate tail erected ; the haunt of the Lyre-Bird 



