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Lei&inornis riifiveniris maudece, S. A. White. Central Australian 



Rufous-breasted Thickhead. 

 Ethclornis ciilicivorus musgravi, Mathews {A. A. Record, vol. ii.. 



No. 7, p. 130). Musgrave Fly-eater. 

 Smicrornis brevirostris viathew^:i, S. A. White. Central Australian 



Tree -Tit. 

 Barnardius zonarius myrtcp, S. A. White. Central Australian 



Yellow-banded Parrot. 

 Thanking you for the review of my work, yours truly, 



S. A. WHITE. 



" Wetunga." Fulham. S.A., 12/6/16. 



AVIFAUNA OF NEW SOUTH WALES ISLANDS. 



To the Editors of " The Emu." 

 Sirs, — Your sense of the "eternal fitness of things" was no 

 doubt responsible for the transference of the plate depicting an 

 Albatross rising from the calm waters of Port Jackson from my 

 article in the last issue of The Emti to a place of honour facing 

 Dr. Ferguson's very valuable contribution, and the substitution 

 of a less appropriate title. Visits of these splendid birds to our 

 harbour are not of such frequency that they fail to excite 

 comment and admiration, whereas an Albatross " rising from the 

 sea " is an almost everyday spectacle to the sea- voyager. Such 

 a picture I now present. It was taken by Mr. J. Degotardi just 

 outside Port Jackson Heads. One can identify the species as the 

 Black-browed Albatross, so clear is the negative. A comparison 

 of the " footprints " in this picture with those in the previous one 

 is interesting, as showing the greater distance the bird has to 

 " walk" on the surface before he gets sufficient impetus to enable 

 him to rise. " The Albatross in a calm may run a quarter of a 

 mile before getting headway enough to launch himself into the 

 air " (Frederic A. Lucas, " The Beginnings of Fhght," The 

 American Museum Journal, vol. x\t., p. 8, 1916). — Yours faith- 



^^"y' A. F. BASSET HULL. 



Sydney, June, 1916. 



To the Editors of " The Emu." 

 Sirs, — At page 264 of vol. xv. of The Emu you published a 

 letter from me, by which I endeavoured to make a correction in 

 regard to some note on Hylacola cauta which had appeared earlier 

 in the same volume. I now know that instead of correcting one 

 error I added another. This I regret very much. I have since 

 been in communication with Mr. W. B. Alexander, of the Perth 

 Museum, and Mr. M. W. Elliott, of Dumbleyung, and have 

 ascertained that the interpretation which I had put on a previous 



